Deng Xiaoping famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Bullying #Play #Tyrants
It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Cat #Animal #White
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Eugenics #Poverty #Socialism
Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Profile #Lows #Bigs
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Maintaining #Affair #Profile
No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Cat #White #Long
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.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Ignorance #People
The minority yields to the majority!
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Yield #Majority #Minorities
We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Country #Essence #Wings
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Doe #Fundamentals #Socialism
I donâ€™t care if the cat is black or white, I just want it to kill the mice.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Cat #White #Black
Seek truth from facts.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Truth #Facts
We must firmly grasp management. Just making things isn't enough. We need to raise the quality.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Quality #Needs #Management
To get rich is glorious.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Political #Rich #Get Rich
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Office #Political #President
By following the concept of one country, two systems, you dont swallow me up nor I you.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Country #Two #Following
Do not debate! is one of my inventions.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Debate #Invention
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Home #Chinese #Return
Black cat or white cat: If it can catch mice, it's a good cat
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Cat #White #Black
Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Steps #Should #Helicopters
There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Oil #Middle East #Earth
Reform is Chinas second revolution.
-- Deng Xiaoping

#Reform #Revolution #China

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