Deng Xiaoping Quotes

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  • I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.

  • Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

    Said in 1983. "The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives". Book edited by Philip West, Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, p. 105, 1987.
  • Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Let some people get rich first.

    Said during his "Southern Tour" in 1992. The Economist, www.economist.com. May 31, 2001.
  • China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are now working earnestly to cultivate socialist democracy and socialist legality. Only in this way can we solve the problem.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • It should be pointed out that some of the things done after the arrest of the Gang of Four were inconsistent with Chairman Mao's wishes, for instance, the construction of the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall. He had proposed in the fifties that we should all be cremated when we died and that only our ashes be kept, that no remains should be preserved and no tombs built.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Not only did Mao Zedong Thought lead us to victory in the revolution in the past; it is - and will continue to be - a treasured possession of the Chinese Communist Party and of our country. That is why we will forever keep Chairman Mao's portrait on Tiananmen Gate as a symbol of our country, and we will always remember him as a founder of our Party and state. Moreover, we will adhere to Mao Zedong Thought. We will not do to Chairman Mao what Khrushchev did to Stalin.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum.

    1989 Of pro-democracy demonstrators. In The Times, 5 Jun.
  • Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is, to rely mainly on our own efforts with external assistance subsidiary.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.

  • No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

  • In China, we are considering ways of resolving our problems by improving our institutions.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Do not debate! is one of my inventions.

  • At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Black cat, white cat, what does it matter as long as the cat catches mice?

  • Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

  • Cross the river by feeling for stones under one's feet.

    "Reflections on Leadership and Vision". Speech by Wang Gungwu. The Honorary Graduates' Speeches: 163rd Congregation, www4.hku.hk. 2002.
  • Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Seek truth from facts.

  • I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.

  • Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

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    Deng Xiaoping

    • Born: August 22, 1904
    • Died: February 19, 1997
    • Occupation: Politician