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  • Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'. -- John McCain
  • 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
  • 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
  • I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. -- Earl Browder
  • When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family. -- Jung Chang
  • Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society. -- Jung Chang
  • 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
  • The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. -- Jung Chang
  • 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
  • I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. -- Jung Chang
  • 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
  • Although I never marched through the streets shouting for Mao, I do believe that the liberation of China at the end of the 1940s was a wonderful thing and to provide its people with a billion pairs of shoes and trousers was a fantastic achievement. -- Henning Mankell
  • I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung. -- Ferdinand Marcos
  • I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit. -- Jiang Qing
  • I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite, -- Jiang Qing
  • Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions. -- Lin Biao
  • When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. -- Zaha Hadid
  • The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong. -- Trey Gowdy
  • 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
  • The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'. -- Paul Johnson
  • The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. -- Steve Forbes
  • It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. -- Jung Chang
  • I have been compared to Mao since we were both junior skaters. We've felt the rivalry since then, so we wanted to avoid each other. However, she has been my motivation. -- Kim Yuna
  • We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog. -- Ron Bloom
  • On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled. -- Gary Locke
  • Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' -- Eric Liu
  • More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.' -- Evan Osnos
  • The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature. -- Theodore Dalrymple
  • Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup. -- Azar Nafisi
  • Mozart is thinking of Chairman Mao" -- Sijie Dai
  • Chairman Mao has never seen a greater show of red strength. -- Bill Shankly
  • I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy. -- Paul Sweezy
  • If that lad makes a First Division footballer, then I'm Mao Tse Tung. -- Tommy Docherty
  • Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period. -- Paul Sweezy
  • Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. -- Peter Drucker
  • Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs. -- Victor Davis Hanson
  • I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me. -- George Jackson
  • Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up. -- Ted Nugent
  • I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role. -- Malcolm X
  • Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality. -- Steve Sailer
  • Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. -- Saul Alinsky
  • Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. -- Terry Eagleton
  • Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most. -- Anita Dunn
  • Another foreign-policy triumph for Reagan was his 1984 visit to China, where he met for more than three hours with Mao Zedong before realizing that Mao was dead. -- Dave Barry
  • Millions of Germans had absolute faith in Hitler. Millions of Russians had faith in Stalin. Millions of Chinese had faith in Mao. Billions have had faith in imaginary gods. -- Steve Allen
  • 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
  • When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully ignorant, morally stunted, purposively asinine, or all three. -- Jonah Goldberg
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  • I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it. -- Malcolm X
  • Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have applied the same strategy even had he not been aware of them. -- William J. Duiker
  • Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary. -- Edgar Snow
  • Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party. -- Xi Jinping
  • Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him. -- Edgar Snow
  • It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands... -- Charlton Heston
  • We have this wonderful capacity in America to Hitlerize people. We had Hitler, and since Hitler we've had about 20 of them. Khrushchev and Mao and of course Stalin, and for a little while Gadhafi was our Hitler. -- Seymour Hersh
  • The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings." -- Jung Chang
  • I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant. -- Edgar Snow
  • To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
  • The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission. -- Peter Drucker
  • Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story? -- Rush Limbaugh
  • I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution. -- Lynne Stewart
  • Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work. -- Frank Gehry
  • Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm. -- Chiang Kai-shek
  • Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible. -- Evan Osnos
  • Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics. -- Pico Iyer
  • Oh, the truth, oh yeah, lot of trouble that got us into, didn't it, over the last maybe thousand years? Hitler knew the truth, so did Stalin, so did Mao Zedong, so did the Inquisition. They all knew the truth and that caused such horror. Certainty is the enemy. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • I was Chairman Maos dog. What he said to bite, I bit. -- Jiang Qing
  • Marx.... Lenin.... Mao Tse-Tung.... These men were animated by the love of brother and this we must believe though their ends meant the seizure of power, and the building of mighty armies, the compulsion of concentration camps, the forced labor and torture and killing of tens of thousands, even millions. -- Dorothy Day
  • 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
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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
  • It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements. -- Thomas Sowell
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