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"No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production."
"We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality."
"Reform is Chinas second revolution."
"Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct."
"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."
"Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum."
"By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you."
"To get rich is glorious."
"In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character."
"I don’t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice."
"Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat"
"If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it."
"The minority yields to the majority!"
"The influence of the Gang of Four should not be underrated, but it should be noted that 97 or 98 per cent of the population hate them intensely for their crimes. This was shown by the mass movement against the Gang of Four which erupted at Tiananmen Square on April 5, 1976, when the Gang were still riding high, Chairman Mao was critically ill and Premier Zhou had passed away."
"In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is, to rely mainly on our own efforts with external assistance subsidiary."
"Any capitalism is superior to feudalism."
"According to Marx, socialism is the first stage of communism and it covers a very long historical period in which we must practise the principle "to each according to his work" and combine the interests of the state, the collective and the individual, for only thus can we arouse people's enthusiasm for labour and develop socialist production."
"In the last couple of years before Chairman Mao's death he said that the "Cultural Revolution" had been wrong on two counts: one was "overthrowing all", and the other was waging a "full-scale civil war". These two counts alone show that the "Cultural Revolution" cannot be called correct. Chairman Mao's mistake was a political mistake, and not a small one."
"Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people."
"We cannot say that everything developed in capitalist countries is of a capitalist nature. For instance, technology, science - even advanced production management is also a sort of science - will be useful in any society or country."