“Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, which was branded as "bourgeois hypocrisy"; courtesy was on the brink of extinction.” MadnessCommunismCourtesy Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.” CommunismMao Zedong Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, when she ventured some critical comments about the situation and got no response from him, she said bitterly, "You are a good Communist, but a rotten husband!" My father nodded. He said he knew.” MarriageCommunism Book:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Source: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
