This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
AI WEIWEIThere are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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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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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Society becomes very destructive.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.
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