Liu Shaoqi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
-- Liu Shaoqi

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ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
-- Liu Shaoqi

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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.
I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

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