Ai Weiwei Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Insecurity Quotes

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.

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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.

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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

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The leadership knows that you cannot solve the issues of China's future with the means of the past. The demographic consequences of the one-child policy, the build-up of the welfare state, 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.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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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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Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.

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Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.

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I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.

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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

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I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

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Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat. 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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My musician friends are banned from playing concerts in China because they share the same views as I do. My name cannot appear on the web, because my opinion is different from the Party.

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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

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I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

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