Ai Weiwei Quotes, Stories Quotes, Dictatorship Quotes

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

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I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.

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Now I've come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable. 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. Nothing is clear-cut. Perhaps I'll find my way - or get totally lost.

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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we'll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.

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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.

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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.

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It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US - from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.

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Selling high or low doesn't mean anything. It has to do purely with the market.

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Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

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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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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.

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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities.

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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

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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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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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