Zhou Enlai quotes

Zhou Enlai quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.”
-- Zhou Enlai

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“You have opened a new chapter in the relations of the American and Chinese people... I am confident that this beginning of our friendship will certainly meet with majority support of our two peoples.”
-- Zhou Enlai

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“All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”
-- Zhou Enlai

Source : Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1954.

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“We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.”
-- Zhou Enlai

Source : "How the Sino-Russian BoundaryConflict Was Finally Settled:From Nerchinsk 1689 to Vladivostok 2005 via Zhenbao Island 1969" by Neville Maxwell,

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“China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all ... but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.”
-- Zhou Enlai

Source : To the Chinese Communist Party Congress, as quoted in The New York Times, September 1, 1973.

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“One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”
-- Zhou Enlai

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“You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.”
“A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, (p. 322), 2004.
“The goal of the future is full unemployment”

Source : "Los Angeles Free Press" Interview, (pp. p. 42-43, 47), April 25, 1969.
“When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.”
“There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.”
“There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.”
“The Internet knows no national borders.”
“My skin was the border between the world and me.”

Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2012). “The Question of Bruno”, p.13, Pan Macmillan
“We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside of Germany.”
“It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.”

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