Chinese Revolution Quotes

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

Salvador Dali

#2. The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

Mao Zedong

#3. My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.

Chiang Kai-shek

#4. To rely on the peasants, build rural base areas and use the countryside to encircle and finally capture the cities - such was the way to victory in the Chinese revolution.

Lin Biao

#5. There is cheese from just about every country in the world except China. No cheese from China? Maybe tofu is Chinese cheese. No wonder there was a cultural revolution.

Jim Gaffigan

#6. Nothing is as good as it seems, and nothing is as bad as it seems. Somewhere in between lies realty.

Lou Holtz

#7. During the Cultural Revolution, the communists came in, and what they wanted to do was eradicate all sense of traditional Chinese culture.

Gene Luen Yang

#8. Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.

Siri Hustvedt

#9. You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

Jeff Foxworthy

#10. The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in Latin America, such as in Cuba - failed for the most part, a failure which was completely clear by the end of the century.

Stephane Hessel

#11. And when one song stops playing write the one that will save your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I am despised by an army of undiscerning academic highbrows, and ridiculed by semi-educated and vengeful "China-experts" whose era of translating Chinese into Western categories has now come to an end. The public is ready for non-European vocabularies.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#13. But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.

Aristotle.

#14. An army of the people is invincible!

Mao Zedong

#15. The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts

Bertrand Russell

#16. It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong

#17. Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?
I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.
In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,
Such questions can turn me to ashes.

Zoe S. Roy

#18. As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went.

Liu Cixin

#19. The essence of Bonham is what he didn't play rather than what he did play - what he left out.

Robert Plant

#20. From the point of view of the Chinese Communist Party, the greatest casualties of the Cultural Revolution were the Party's prestige and its ability to govern. Pg. 539

Nien Cheng

#21. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

Mao Zedong

#22. Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Mao Zedong