Wei Jingsheng quotes

“The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.”
-- Wei Jingsheng

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“Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.”
-- Wei Jingsheng

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“Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.”
-- Wei Jingsheng

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“We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?”
-- Wei Jingsheng

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“We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no gods or emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.”
-- Wei Jingsheng

Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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“A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”

Source : A.V. Dicey, J.W.F. Allison (2013). “The Law of the Constitution”, p.230, Oxford University Press

“Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.”

Source : Voltaire, Aaron Hill (1797). “Merope: A Tragedy”, p.50

“Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.”

“If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.”

Source : "Armond White trollin': Calls Res Evil 'superior to Inception on every level.'" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 16, 2010.

“Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.”

Source : Ayelet Waldman (2006). “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits”, Doubleday Books

“Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.29, Open Road Media

“What can be broken, should be broken.”

“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”

“There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.”