Assessing Quote by Deng Xiaoping

Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and…

— Deng Xiaoping

We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four.…

— Deng Xiaoping

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…

— Deng Xiaoping

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:…

— Deng Xiaoping

It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a…

— Deng Xiaoping

All leaders make mistakes. They are a part of life. Successful leaders recognize their errors, learn from them, and work to correct their faults.

— John C. Maxwell

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

“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

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he…

— Deng Xiaoping

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

— Lin Biao

“it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a…

— John Stuart Mill

“Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned.…

— Richelle E. Goodrich