Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded… — Earl Browder Copy Share Image
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Many of the ideas of Sun Tzu and Mao Zedong came naturally to the young Ho Chi Minh, who would probably have… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts:… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation… — Frederick Forsyth Copy Share Image
There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image