“If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.”
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII
“I was doubly impressed with the responsibility I bore. I said to myself, “I’ll do it! Even if I don’t have coconuts, even if I have to eat grass and weeds, I’ll do it! These are my orders, and I will carry them out.” It may sound strange today, but I meant it.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
“Don't wish me luck; wish me goodness: that I may always be good.”
― Quiet Places: Collected Essays
― Quiet Places: Collected Essays
“Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall.”
― Mao's Quotations: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung/The Little Red Book
― Mao's Quotations: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung/The Little Red Book
“Then, with his eyes directly on me, he said, “You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we’ll come back for you. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that’s the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you give up your life voluntarily.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
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