The world is a sphere, there is no East or West. - Ai Weiwei

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

I want to prove that the system is not working. . . . . You can’t simply say that the system is not working. You have to work through it

[The Olympics are] an event manipulated into misleading people into believing that we have entered a new, successful and harmonious period in our history. This is not true.