Edgar Snow famous quotes

Mao appears to be quite free from symptoms of megalomania, but he has a deep sense of personal dignity, and something about him suggests a power of ruthless decision when he deems it necessary.
-- Edgar Snow

#Decision #Dignity #Mao

It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.
-- Edgar Snow

#Strong #Army #Men

Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.
-- Edgar Snow

#Destiny #Firsts #Nonsense

Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.
-- Edgar Snow

#Army #Years #Two

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an extraordinary mind, but because he has the personal habits of a peasant.
-- Edgar Snow

#Doubt #Mind #Intellectual

In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.
-- Edgar Snow

#War #Russia #People

There seemed to be nothing in Mao that might be called religious feeling; his judgments were reached, I believe, on the basis of reason and necessity. Because of this I think he has probably on the whole been a moderating influence in the Communist movement where life and death are concerned.
-- Edgar Snow

#Religious #Believe #Thinking

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite,

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.