Ai Weiwei Quotes

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.

The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.

You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?

There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.

I never think any place is better than others.

It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.

Society becomes very destructive.