The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
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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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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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China restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
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[Cultural departments] don’t care about culture. Maybe they’re the furthest from the people who understand culture.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
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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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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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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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