“After the Communists triumphed, Chairman Mao Zedong subjected his compatriots to social experiment after brutal social experiment. During the Great Leap Forward of 1958–61, he forced peasants into collective farms, causing mass starvation. During the Cultural Revolution (1966–76), he murdered people suspected of bourgeois sympathies and forced engineers and college professors to work as peasants in the fields or laborers in factories. Between 40 million and 70 million people died from his excesses.4”
― Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
― Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
“If there is anything that may properly be called happiness here below, I am persuaded it is the union of two persons who love each other with perfect liberty, who are united by a secret inclination, and satisfied with each other's merits. Their hearts are full and leave no vacancy for any other passion; they enjoy perpetual tranquillity because they enjoy content.”
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
― The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
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