Jiang Quotes & Sayings

This is the most frightening lesson of the Cultural Revolution: Without a sound legal system, a small group or even a single person can take control of an entire country. This is as true now as it was then. Thirty — Ji-li Jiang

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. — Jiang Zemin

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions. — Ji-li Jiang

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace. — Ji-li Jiang

Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim - and celebrate - that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying. — Mira Bartok

But by not even asking, we are rejecting ourselves by default - and probably missing out on opportunity as a result. A 2011 — Jia Jiang

The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields. — Ji-li Jiang

It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them. — Ji-li Jiang

You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple
sometimes naive. — Jiang Zemin

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I — Ji-li Jiang

There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering. — Ramez Naam

Now you can show your revolutionary determination." He paused. "We want you to testify against your father at the struggle meeting. — Ji-li Jiang

Now let's sincerely and wholeheartedly wish long life to our great leader, great teacher, great commander, and great helmsman, Chairman Mao." Her — Ji-li Jiang

ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and Europe will build on their respective civilizations and respect, learn from, complement and benefit each other. — Jiang Zemin

China will continue to support the efforts of the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including the establishment of an independent state, — Jiang Zemin

Chinese president Jiang Zemin met with former Bill Clinton in Hong Kong Wednesday. What a contrast. One is a ruthless communist who gains popularity by damaging the United States, while the other guy runs China. — Argus Hamilton

When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century. — Li Peng

But at home he was our humorous, kind, and wise Dad. He loved reading, and he loved including the whole family in his discoveries. He — Ji-li Jiang

Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her — Ji-li Jiang

Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part, Westerners are descendants of barbarian, nomadic tribes such as the Teutons and the Anglo-Saxons. They burst out of the primeval forest like wild animals after a couple of thousand years of Greek and Roman civilization, and sacked ancient Rome. They eat steak, cheese, and butter with knives and forks, which is how they've retained more primitive wildness than the traditional farming races. Over the past hundred years, domesticated China has been bullied by the brutish West. It's not surprising that for thousands of years the Chinese colossus has been spectacularly pummeled by tiny nomadic peoples. — Jiang Rong

It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S. — Jiang Zemin

Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country, — Jiang Zemin

Here is the opportunity for you to help Chairman Mao's revolution. Who can win the most honor by telling us first? — Ji-li Jiang

Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His — Ji-li Jiang

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me — Ji-li Jiang

Streamlining the army with Chinese characteristics is the right choice for China in military modernization, — Jiang Zemin

Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing. — Alex Jiang

I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit. — Jiang Qing

Her actions remind me that, even under unbearable circumstances, one can still believe in justice. And above all, love. — Ji-li Jiang

The Communist Party of China should represent the development trends of advanced productive forces, the orientations of an advanced culture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people of China. — Jiang Zemin

I thought about my beautiful dreams and wondered if they would drift away just like those lovely soap bubbles. — Ji-li Jiang

Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities. — Jiang Rong

Heaven and man do not easily come together, but a wolf and the grassland merge like water and milk. — Jiang Rong

How did people manage before there were flashlights?" Chen asked.
"With torches, wood wrapped with butter-soaked felt. They were as bright as these, and the wolves were scared to death of them. If one came at you, you could burn it's fur. — Jiang Rong

The Chinese government thinks China and the U.S. should develop a constructive relationship of cooperation, — Jiang Zemin

Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted. — Ji-li Jiang

It takes two hands to clap. — Jiang Zemin

Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence. — Jiang Zemin

What a terrible man, I thought, worse than a traitor. At least a traitor betrays people by telling the truth. Uncle Zhu tried to save himself by telling lies. — Ji-li Jiang

I whispered, under my breath, an atheist's prayer ... whatever the hell that is. — William Jiang

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own, — Jiang Zemin

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good. — Jiang Zemin

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology had been replaced by Fundamentals of Industry and Agriculture, because of Chairman Mao's instruction to "combine education with practical experience. — Ji-li Jiang

A convention on the comprehensive ban of nuclear weapons should be negotiated. Since biological and chemical weapons have been prohibited, there is no reason why nuclear weapons, which are more destructive, should not be comprehensively banned and thoroughly destroyed. All it takes to reach this objective is strong political will. — Jiang Zemin

Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party. — Henry A. Kissinger

The grassland is a big life, but it's thinner than people's eyelids. If you rupture its grassy surface, you blind it, and dust storms are more lethal than the white-hair blizzards. If the grassland dies, so will the cows and sheep and horses, as well as the wolves and the people, all the little lives. — Jiang Rong

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general. — Jiang Zemin

The Yellow River causes a hundred calamities but enriches all it touches — Jiang Rong

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

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts. — Jiang Qing

Protecting the grassland is hard on us. If we don't kill wolves, they'll be fewer of us. But if we kill too many of them, there'll be even fewer. — Jiang Rong

It felt almost like a dream from long ago. I remembered another Ji-li, one who was always praised by her teachers and respected by her classmates. A Ji-li who always pushed herself to do better, achieve more. — Ji-li Jiang

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening. — Ji-li Jiang

Those wolves were crueler even than the Japanese devils. They knew that all they had to do was rip open the bellies and let the horses die under their own hooves. I've never seen anything more sinister, more savage in my life. Those wolves embody the spirit of the Japanese samurai. Suicidal attacks don't faze them, and that makes Mongol wolves more fearful than any others. I won't rest till I kill every last one of them! — Jiang Rong

Seventeen years after Liberation, the newspapers told us, our schools were not bringing us up to be good red socialists and communists, as we had thought, but revisionists. We — Ji-li Jiang

I was willing to take on the struggle to establish myself in a new country because I knew that was the price I would have to pay for the freedom to think, speak, and write whatever I pleased. — Ji-li Jiang

Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere. — P. J. O'Rourke

Except for a few who actually killed people, hardly any "revolutionaries" have been punished for what they did during the Cultural Revolution. Those — Ji-li Jiang

The People's Liberation Army should play the role of shock troops, overcoming fatigue and sharpening vigilance to make new contributions. — Jiang Zemin

Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange, — Jiang Zemin

The horses sped through the dense autumn grass, their hooves kicking up moths in various colors: pinks, oranges, whites, blues. There were also green, yellow, and multicolored grasshoppers and other autumn insects. A few purple swallows circled overhead, singing in their shrill voices; sometimes they darted right past the horses, and sometimes they shot up into the sky, enjoying the insect feast provided by the horses and humans. — Jiang Rong