What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens? - Ai Weiwei

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

Any power or structure that seeks to maintain full control and is not open in any way to loosening its power eventually makes itself ridiculous.

I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, [at] the park, [I had] been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.