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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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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
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They the government really want to maintain power. At the same time, they refuse to communicate. They refuse to have good intentions. They refuse to be sincere. How can that last?
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I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
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Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
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This does not mean a meteor has fallen. This is the discovery of a star.
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What can they do besides exile me or make me disappear? They have no imagination or creativity.
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Anyone who cares about truth should avoid not politics, but Olympic lies.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
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The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.
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We need to get out of the old language.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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My voice is not for me. Every time I make a sentence I think how many people for how many generations had a voice that no one could hear. At most they will be remembered as numbers; in many cases, even numbers don’t exist.
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
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The 2008 Olympics has created an illusion of China to the public and to the outside world. It is so fantastic, so unreal, that the entire meaning of the games is being distorted.
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The Chinese government only superficially speaks the language of the international community.
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You can see China still cannot offer any real value to the world except as cheap labor, manufacturer, and its own so-called stability. Besides that, I don’t see any creative values and creative mind or thinking that can be announced from China. So this is the struggle China has to face in the next decades.
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Once again, the facts have been erased.
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The frustration mainly comes from trying to understand what they really want. Also, you cannot understand how can such a large nation maintain its so-called stability by doing something very unlawful. I mean, how can they possibly manage to stabilize the whole social condition by not acting with justice and fairness.
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I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.
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No autocracy can lead people to believe that they are living in harmony and happiness.
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My favorite word? It’s 'act.'