Politics Quote by Naomi Novik

We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern…

— Sun Yat-sen

“The Communist Party has not done much to change China’s traditional notions of governance, and the result has been more sorrow for the Chinese…

— Gordon G. Chang

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 is a poor country. The economic development everybody talks about has only benefited a limited part of the population. If this way of…

— Henning Mankell

“China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.”

— Jeremy Gordon

“the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the perpetrator.”

— Karen Armstrong

“If American misjudgments and actions that evolved into human tragedies—i.e., racism, sexism, and other bigotries—are guiding lights, the Chinese leadership must ultimately yield its…

— Patrick Mendis

“The point is that the Party has lost the power to control what the Chinese people believe.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“The biggest problem in Chinese society is not money, but rather the lack of a developed civil society. Civil society has received a lot…

— Bi Feiyu

“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