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“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 Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao said something…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Mussolini had learnt more from Lenin and the Bolsheviks than he would have cared to admit, notably the lesson that parliamentary majorities were far…

— Robert Gerwarth

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

— Li Lu

“Dictators have no peers; only sycophants to do their bidding. That is how it was in Nazi Germany. And so it is wherever autocrats…

— Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

“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

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Leaders worth following inspire their people not just with clear direction, but with a unified purpose and passionate commitment to a cause:”

— Becky Sheetz-Runkle

“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

I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review interview I…

— Mark Leyner

“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

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for…

— Frances Perkins