The best Quotes by Ai Weiwei

The best Quotes by Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. As an activist, he has been openly critical of the Chinese Government's stance on democracy and human rights.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Oktober 2009

Freedom of Speech

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word - even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice.

Censorship Internet

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

We see the tendency in the world to criticise democracy and sometimes even to say that authoritarian countries like China are more efficient. That is very short-sighted. China looks efficient only because it can sacrifice most people's rights. This is not something the west should be happy about.

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We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods. The shoe fits Cinderella, the frog turns into a prince, sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss. Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after. Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable. It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality. The person that invented the phrase "Happily ever after" should have his ass kicked, so hard!

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 5 Episode 1

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Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Fairytales

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

Albert Einstein

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Children & Childhood Fairytales

Hermione: "We didn't hear stories like that when we were little, we heard 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves' and 'Cinderella'..."
Ron: "What's that? An illness?"

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Cinderella Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Fairytales

Fairy tales are meant to be shared.

Belle in Beauty and the Beast

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One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

C.S. Lewis in The Chronicles of Narnia

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Fear Fairytales Dragons

Fairy tales are for everyone.

Walt Disney

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With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 4 Episode 21

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Julian Assange

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

Tim Robbins

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

George R. R. Martin in A Song of Ice and Fire - A Clash of Kings

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With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 4 Episode 21

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Human Rights Freedom Censorship

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

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Give me your love and not your like!

5

Internet Social Media

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Joanne K. Rowling

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Internet Teenagers

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

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People can say some extraordinary things when they're hiding behind a keyboard.

1

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

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The Internet is like a wave. You either learn to swim with it or you sink.

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We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Stephen Hawking

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You're like the iPhone 5 of German TV hosts. Thin, light and unnecessarily tall.

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf in Joko & Klaas - neoParadise vom 13.09.2012

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We live in a world where losing your iPhone is more dramatic than losing your virginity.

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Society Smartphones iPhones

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) - 04/2007, 2 months before first iPhone is released

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Mistakes iPhones

Asked my daughter to get me a phone book...
She's like, "Yo Gen X, how about keeping up? Just use my iPhone!"
I shrugged, took her iPhone and totally wrecked it when I crushed the spider on the wall.

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

They have a new high-end iPhone called the iPhone 5S. The 'S' stands for 'shut up and give us your money'.

Jimmy Kimmel in Jimmy Kimmel Live!

This is about as close as America gets to having a royal baby; Apple unveiling a new iPhone.

Jimmy Kimmel in Jimmy Kimmel Live!

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

Why are all the news ladies Chinese? They should stick to what they know: railroads, sushi and dim sum.

Frank Gallagher in Shameless - Season 1 Episode 4

I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.

China will always remain the builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and upholder of international order.

I went to stay in China for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what's going on in the world.

In the past months since February 24th, we had to realize that aggressive rhetoric can lead to dangerous actions. China's rhetoric about Taiwan is concerning.

Annalena Baerbock - August 2022

China 2022 Russia-Ukraine War Taiwan

You can't punish people for their thoughts. I'm from China, we've tried.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 8

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

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I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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