QUOTE BOOK

Quotations from Deng Xiaoping, taken from official texts and translated by The Associated Press:

“On no account should we allow our youngsters to fall captive to capitalist ideas.”

--March 1985 speech.

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“The United States has blamed us for suppressing the students. But didn’t the U.S. itself call out police and troops to deal with student strikes and disturbances...?

--June 9, 1989, comment to officers of troops enforcing martial law in Beijing after Tiananmen Square massacre.

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“If you want to bring the initiative of the peasants into play, you should give them the power to make money.”

--October 1985 comment to magazine delegation.

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“It doesn’t matter if we put profits in command a bit. Otherwise what can the state depend on?”

--1975 speech.

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“Feudal society replaced slave society. Capitalism supplanted feudalism. And, after a long time, socialism will necessarily supersede capitalism.”

--Comment made during January-February 1992 tour of southern China

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“It is our task to continue to observe faithfully the Central Committee’s principle of opposition to the elevation and glorification of the individual.”

--1956 speech against Mao Tse-tung’s personality cult.

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“Ideologically, I must confess that not only have I not raised high the banner of Mao Tse-tung thought, but I have not even lifted this banner up.”

--October 1966 self-criticism while under attack as a “capitalist roader.”

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“If today we still do not set about the task of improving the socialist system, people will ask why it cannot solve problems which its capitalist counterpart can.”

--August 1980 party speech