Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
AI WEIWEIFor years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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We never really see the global situation as a total situation. Today’s political leaders are still lacking of the vision.
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Everyone of us is a potential convict.
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They 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.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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China hasn’t only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it’s become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big. Everybody has to rethink the balance of the world and the whole landscape.
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society – the kind of mistreatment society gave him.
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The importance of elections, transparency, legal procedures, an independent army, and the judicial system is not regarded as highly in China. These core values are the most important evidence of the health of a society, quality of life, and security.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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