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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.

Ai Weiwei

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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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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Deadly Everything Evil Internet Letting Openness People Thinking Weapon
Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.
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In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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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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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am.
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The so-called culture nowadays is only a fake one with a superficial front. It is an empty lie.
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I think it’s quite narrow-minded. There wasn’t much encouragement or opportunities for any artist – not just Chinese artists.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable – how we decide what is valuable.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I never think any place is better than others.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.

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