Chinese Quote by John Lennon

In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure.

— John Lennon

“The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the…

— Jung Chang

“In Taiwan during the 1960s and mainland China in the 1980s, conceptualism played a role similar to that of Dada, that is, as a…

— Gao Minglu

The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is…

— Theodore Dalrymple

The whole world is a personality cult.

— Anneli Rufus

Mao Zedong's way was to make people crazy. It was like a religious cult.

— Li Lu

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another…

— Jung Chang

“China seems to offer a much more serious challenge than Western social protestors. Despite liberalising its politics and economics, China is neither a democracy…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an…

— Robert Wyatt

The Chinese people absolutely need good spiritual examples. They also could use a citizen of their own, who is free and happy, and pleased…

— Robert Thurman

But as in all cults, what's central to the Communist Party is the belief system and the elimination of nuance. From there you're very…

— Alexei Sayle

The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their…

— Huston Smith