It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.

My joy at the sensation of my mind opening up and expanding was beyond description.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

We in China had been trained not to draw conclusions from facts, but to start with Marxist theories or Mao thoughts or the Party line and to deny, even condemn, the facts that did not suit them. I

They verbally attacked each other with Mao's quotations, making cynical use of his guru-like elusiveness--it was easy to select a quotation of Mao's to suit any situation, or even both sides of the same argument.

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality

Jung Chang

Quotes by Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

Written By Jung Chang

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