Ai Weiwei Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

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. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.

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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

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When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.

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In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

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China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

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You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.

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

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In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.

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I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.

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This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.

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Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

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I think it's more important to show your work to the public.

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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.

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Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so interesting. I think it's quite narrow-minded. There wasn't much encouragement or opportunities for any artist - not just Chinese artists.

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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of. A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.

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