Deng Xiaoping Quotes

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• No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, White, Long

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• China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.

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  Change, Bullying, Power

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• Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

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  Maintaining, Affair, Profile

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• Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

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  Eugenics, Poverty, Socialism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Profile, Lows, Bigs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Rivers, Feelings, Stones

  "Reflections on Leadership and Vision". Speech by Wang Gungwu. The Honorary Graduates' Speeches: 163rd Congregation, www4.hku.hk. 2002.

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• A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Doe, Fundamentals, Socialism

  1985 Address to US businessmen organized by Time magazine, 18 Dec.

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• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Office, Political, President

  Said in 1983. "The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives". Book edited by Philip West, Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, p. 105, 1987.

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• Not only did Mao Zedong Thought lead us to victory in the revolution in the past; it is - and will continue to be - a treasured possession of the Chinese Communist Party and of our country. That is why we will forever keep Chairman Mao's portrait on Tiananmen Gate as a symbol of our country, and we will always remember him as a founder of our Party and state. Moreover, we will adhere to Mao Zedong Thought. We will not do to Chairman Mao what Khrushchev did to Stalin.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Country, Party, Past

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Cat, Animal, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Technology, Play, Effort

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries. The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems. Socialism and market economy are not incompatible. We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.

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  Country, Essence, Wings

  "Pela China Dentro". Book by António Caeiro. Published by Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004.

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• Let some people get rich first.

  Deng Xiaoping

  People, Firsts, Rich

  Said during his "Southern Tour" in 1992. The Economist, www.economist.com. May 31, 2001.

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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.

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  Mistake, Past, Thinking

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Seek truth from facts.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Truth, Facts

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• When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Home, Chinese, Return

  Forbes, Volume 176, Editions 7-13, p. 79, 2005.

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• I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Responsibility, Would Be

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.

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  Feudalism, Capitalism, Superiors

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Reform is Chinas second revolution.

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  Reform, Revolution, China

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

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• Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

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  Students, Logic, Reasonable

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• No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.

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  Mean, Degrees, World

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country.

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  Country, Technology, Management

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mass, Feels, Ifs

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• For a leader to pick his own successor is a feudal practice.

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  Practice, Leader, Successors

  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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