Chairman Mao Quotes

• Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

  David Tang

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.

  John McCain

  Black, Remember, Mao

  John McCain, Mark Salter (2004). “Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't.

  Lin Biao

  Mao, Thousand, Wells

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• I was Chairman Maos dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

  Jiang Qing

  Dog, Mao, Said

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• If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

  Jung Chang

  Children, Parent, Ruins

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• It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

  Lester Bangs

  Air, Hands, Buttons

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

  Lin Biao

  Teaching, Writing, Study

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• Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means.

  Lester Bangs

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

  Zaha Hadid

  Uniforms, Firsts, Mao

  "Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2011.

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• Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail.

  Dalai Lama

  Gun, Power, Government

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• It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to Chairman Mao, to Premier Chou, to the people of our two countries, and to the hope of our children that peace and harmony can be the legacy of our generation to theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Children, War

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.374, Best Books on

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• I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.

  Jiang Qing

  Dog, Mao, Chairman

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• Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength.

  Bill Shankly

  Red, Mao, Shows

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• First, there was Confucius. Then, the sayings of Chairman Mao. And now the pithy, ironic, and humorous insights of Ai Weiwei. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection, which reflects a well-developed philosophy as well as a keen understanding of the Chinese Communist system. This is China made easy and interesting.

  Jerome A. Cohen

  Philosophy, Reading, Humorous

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• We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four. For most of his life, Chairman Mao did very good things. Many times he saved the Party and the state from crisis. Without him the Chinese people would, at the very least, have spent much more time groping in the dark.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Party, Dark

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers.

  Dalai Lama

  Teacher, Buddhist, Leader

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

  Ken Livingstone

  Feet, Eras, Mao

  "Ken Defends Mao, and Puts His Foot in It... Again". www.independent.co.uk. May 17, 2006.

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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, World, Firsts

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• Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Chinese Revolution, Practice, Ideas

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and mistakes, we hold that his mistakes were only secondary. What he did for the Chinese people can never be erased. In our hearts we Chinese will always cherish him as a founder of our Party and our state.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Party, Heart

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Art, Philosophy, Military

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• In the past there were too many portraits of Chairman Mao in China. They were hung everywhere. That was not proper and it didn't really show respect for Chairman Mao.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Past, Portraits, Mao

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• I don't advocate Stalinist monolithic state structures any more than I advocate capitalistic monoliths. Unfortunately, human society tends to the monolithic, whether you go to the left or right, everybody in leathers, or everybody holding Chairman Mao's book, and if everybody goes to one end of the pitch, I always go to the other.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Book, Mao, Structure

  Source: www.avclub.com

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