Quotes About Chinese Cultural Revolution

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#5. He forgot how he himself had been blind, a short time ago - after the fashion of all crusaders since the original ones, who set out to spread the gospel of Brotherhood by force of arms.

Upton Sinclair

#6. Jack Reacher ordered espresso, double, no peel, no cube, foam cup, no china, and before it arrived at his table he saw a man's life change forever.

Lee Child

#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. After being out so long, I was more anxious to pitch than anything, just ready to get back into things. I can't imagine a better situation to test me against some pressure.

Bobby Bell

#9. I know so many amazing actors who don't get work ... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

Jenna Fischer

#10. 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