People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
AI WEIWEINow many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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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 Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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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. Art should live in the heart of the people.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
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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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For me, it is OK as long as I can breathe, as long as my heart is pumping, as long as I can express myself.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I don’t care if this is a great cultural event or a national symbol. It has nothing to do with me. It deals with the city.
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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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