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“They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness––it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to…

— Jung Chang

“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

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

When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first…

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“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

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

— Li Lu

“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

“Half contemptuously, American military men spoke of “elusive” Lin Piao, and of the “poet” Mao Tse-tung. Mao Tse-tung, Premier of China, had already revealed…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“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

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

— Gordon G. Chang

“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