Ai Weiwei on Friendship
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Ai Weiwei and filed under "friendship" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #8634: "They 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?"
Attributed to Ai Weiwei, entry #139088: "They tell us it will be about “emotions” and “friendship,” that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?"
7 Quotes by Ai Weiwei on Friendship
"They 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?"
"They tell us it will be about “emotions” and “friendship,” that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?"
"I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations."
"The Chinese only superficially speaks the language of the international community."
"Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare."
"Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business."
"Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun."