Mao Quotes - Page 3

• Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa, not often coupled with each other, but the two people that I turn to most.

  Anita Dunn

  Mother, Two, People

  "'Special Report' Panel on White House Fox Bashing and Afghanistan Elections". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. October 20, 2009.

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• In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody -- from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung -- can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.

  Auberon Waugh

  Issues, People, Political

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• I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hate, Revolution, Violent

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• Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

  Adam Michnik

  Color, Black, World

  "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.

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• When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

  Dennis Prager

  Wall, Confused, Class

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• Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero.

  Jamie Glazov

  Hero, Heart, Tyrants

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• 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

  Brother, Believe, Army

  "The Incompatibility of Love and Violence". "Catholic Worker", May 1951.

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• Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.

  Paul Sweezy

  Boys, Alive, Said

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Expression, People, Culture

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now?  Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you?  To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• 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

  Dog, Europe, Chinese

  Paul Johnson (1991). “Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.

  Paul Sweezy

  Real, Levels, Periods

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.

  Edgar Snow

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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

  Doubt, Mind, Intellectual

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Country, Years, Mugabe

  "While we have your attention, Mr President". www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2003.

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• In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is, to rely mainly on our own efforts with external assistance subsidiary.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Effort, Principles, Finals

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• 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

  People, Leader, Revolution

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Years, People

  P. J. O'Rourke (2011). “Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics”, p.156, Pan Macmillan

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• Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

  Peter Drucker

  Hype, Leader, Three

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• While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.

  George Friedman

  Country, New York, Army

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Sick, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Decision, Dignity, Symptoms

  Source: www.counterpunch.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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• 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, Chairman

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

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• Mao challenged the idea that economic planning would dissolve conflicts of interest among the people. He saw it dialectically - conflicts between intellectuals and manual workers, between the city and the countryside, stratification in the party and society. He said it was necessary to struggle to overcome these differences whether it takes 100 or 500 years.

  Harry Magdoff

  Struggle, Party, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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