The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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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.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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The intention to separate art from politics is itself a very political intention.
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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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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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