Amanda Bok

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“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: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Woman Accused of Being a British Spy in Maoist China

“When the Communist Army took over China,”
― Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Woman Accused of Being a British Spy in Maoist China

“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