I don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
AI WEIWEII don’t think I was very structured in that society and I don’t really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
AI WEIWEIOnce you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIThe people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
AI WEIWEIThese are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
AI WEIWEIBehind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
AI WEIWEI[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
AI WEIWEIThe practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
AI WEIWEIBy participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.
AI WEIWEII think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don’t think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.
AI WEIWEII call on people to be ‘obsessed citizens,’ forever questioning and asking for accountability. That’s the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.
AI WEIWEIA clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
AI WEIWEIThey see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
AI WEIWEIThey lack any ability to sense what is beautiful or what is proper. They can be learned and skillful, but they lack the ability to make their own free judgment. It is really sad to see young adults of 20, 25 years who were never taught to make their own decisions.
AI WEIWEIWe should use this public sphere and redefine – beyond China’s borders – what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen’s privacy begins.
AI WEIWEII am everywhere and I am nowhere. That’s the beauty of the Internet Age.
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