Ai Weiwei Quotes

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• I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need.
• Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.
• A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
• Everyone of us is a potential convict.
• Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
• Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
• A small act is worth a million thoughts.
• The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.
• If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.
• Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have…
• Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
• We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to…
• Freedom of speech implies the world isn’t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
• Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
• In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
• I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
• Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
• We should leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth, and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves. The…
• To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
• I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

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