Mao Zedong Quotes

I grew up pretty much prevented from knowing anything from Communist China except that they were the bad guys that stole our country.

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.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

As the first generation of Chinese Communism passes, we are baffled by its unexpected successes

The Great Leap Forward

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

In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).

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.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

This has been a great victory for the Venezuelan people.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence.

The country is the people.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

...The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.

The government of Mexico and the Mexican people do not have to accept provisions that one government unilaterally wants to impose on the other.

Mao Zedong was a revolutionary. He made a revolution.

You cannot force a country to do something that is against its own interests or against the democratic process.

I was born and grew up in China during the 1960s.