Mao Zedong Quotes

“I may be wrong, but I still claim in Mao's defence, that in a country like China, where the shout of 'long live' has been repeated throughout several thousand years of history, a man, no matter how wise, will be unable to keep a cool head for long. When the shout turns into a kind of ritual greeting, he will ultimately come to regard it as a matter of course. And this ritual invariably transforms the man into a god; and once he has been deified, he becomes increasingly alienated from the masses, and the more he becomes alienated from them, the more he is treated like a god; a cycle which will in due course evolve into tragedy.”
― Yanchi Quan, Mao Zedong: Man, Not God