Arrogance Quote by David Halberstam

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests…

— Edgar Snow

“Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their…

— Geoff Ryman

“Mao sanctified propaganda and censorship as essential parts of Thought Work, and he relied on them to reframe the Long March as a strategic…

— Evan Osnos

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process…

— Jacques Loeb

“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain the sentence…

— Jung Chang

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“The important point, and the crux of the Mao heresy, is that the rural peasant is the base of power. This is a rural,…

— J.C. Wylie

“Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see…

— Simon Leys

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an…

— Edgar Snow

“French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the time.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something…

— Jean-Luc Godard