The Private Life of Chairman Mao Quotes

“I want it to serve as a reminder of the terrible human consequences of Mao’s dictatorship and of how good and talented people living under his regime were forced to violate their consciences and sacrifice their ideals in order to survive.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“少數清醒的人只能悶聲不響。每個人都爭相跳上這班開往烏托邦的列車，全力向黑暗疾駛而去。原本「反冒進」的人也跟著毛指揮棒起舞。沒有人知道他們心裡真正在想什麼。每個人都困在這場集體歇斯底里症的烏托邦中。”
― 李志綏, 毛澤東私人醫生回憶錄（40萬冊暢銷經典版）

“我走回來，默無一言。我原本極為尊敬「鄧大姊」的，現在知道她”
― 李志綏, 毛澤東私人醫生回憶錄（40萬冊暢銷經典版）

“he would dare to transform China and make it great. He would build his own Great Walls.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“Kaysone Phoumvihan”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“All the able-bodied males, the real farmers of China, had been taken out of agricultural production to tend the backyard steel furnaces.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao