At midnight they can come into your room and take you away. They can put a black hood on you, take you to a secret place and interrogate you, trying … - Ai Weiwei

I have the responsibility to let the people know what happened to me, and did I commit the crime or if I didn’t, what is the real accusation? Why am I in this condition today? I think it reflects our human condition in this piece of land, and if I don’t bear some responsibility . . . . many, many people, their voice can never be heard.

But censorship by itself doesn’t work. It is, as Mao said, about the pen and the gun.

There is no revolution like the Communist revolution. You simply burn all the books, kill all of the thinking people and use the poor proletariat to create a very simple benchmark to gauge social change.