Stefan Aust > Quotes

“Like Confucianism, communism is a kind of secular religion. Like a religion, communism connects people through shared rituals and songs, offers explanations for everything and promises a paradise to come.”
― Stefan Aust, Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World

“Who was Confucius? His real name was Kong Qiu, and he was the extramarital child of an impoverished seventy-year-old aristocrat and his sixteen-year-old concubine. The boy was born 551 years before Christ, and half a century before Rome became a republic.”
― Stefan Aust, Xi Jinping: The Most Powerful Man in the World