Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
AI WEIWEIIf you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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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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Selling high or low doesn’t mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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I will bring 1,001 Chinese to participate as my artwork there – any Chinese who is a Chinese passport holder and over eighteen years old could apply through my blog.
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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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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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For years, I refused to go to any openings, not even my own.
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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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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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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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