Best quotes by Ma Jian on People

Checkout quotes by Ma Jian on People

• ‟ To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

  - Ma Jian
  

• ‟ When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  - Ma Jian
  

• ‟ Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

  - Ma Jian
  

• ‟ I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

  - Ma Jian
  

• ‟ When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  - Ma Jian
  

• ‟ On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

  - Ma Jian