And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
AI WEIWEIAs a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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These folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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He will still mean danger. Modern technology requires calm. You shouldn’t trust anyone with a car who has no knowledge about vehicles or roads.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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They 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.
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Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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