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Nien Cheng
“Often I look back on the wasted years of the Mao Tze-tung era and the madness of the Cultural Revolution. I feel deeply saddened that so many lives were needlessly sacrificed. I was glad when the Cultural Revolution was officially declared a national catastrophe but I regret the Communist Party leadership’s inability or unwillingness to repudiate Mao’s policy in explicit terms.”
Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai

Kristin Hannah
“You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God—and each other and ourselves—in times as dark as these.”
Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

Nien Cheng
“I have met many Europeans and Americans who thought Communist China was an egalitarian society. This simply is not true. The fact is the Communist Government controls goods, services and opportunities and dispenses them to the people in unequal proportions.”
Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai

Nien Cheng
“Socialism in Chinese style’ is in fact a phrase coined to save the face of the Chinese Communist leaders who do not have the courage to acknowledge openly that socialism has failed in China. They hope to revitalize the State-owned industries with methods of management copied from capitalist countries and to use market forces as a substitute for central planning while retaining State ownership of those industries. They want the Party-appointed managers, who are bureaucrats on fixed salaries, to achieve the same degree of expertise and commitment as the entrepreneurs of private industries in the West. They want the workers to work much harder and more competitively for bonuses and small increases in pay but reduced welfare benefits. And they hope everybody will be motivated by patriotism to achieve increased productivity and profit for the State but at the same time to remain honest and incorruptible.”
Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai

Timothy Snyder
“如果專業人士讓當下的政治氣氛影響應謹守的倫理原則,那麼,他們便會說出過去自己不可置信之妄語,犯下自己無法想像之惡行。”
Timothy Snyder, 暴政:掌控關鍵年代的獨裁風潮,洞悉時代之惡的20堂課

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