Decision Quote by Edgar Snow

“The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal…

— David Halberstam

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

“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

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very…

— Jung Chang

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather…

— Bertrand Russell

“Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating…

— Anonymous

“If Xi personally accepts Maoism, we should not be surprised he believes his Maoist campaign is popular across Chinese society. “Today’s Chinese leadership—under pressure…

— Gordon Chang

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

— Arundhati Roy

“Some believe his political vulnerabilities have not only driven him into the arms of Mao but also the clutches of the country’s generals and…

— Gordon Chang

“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