Ye Jianying Quotes

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Marxism recognizes that leadership persons play an important and indispensable role in historical development; at the same time it believes that leaders who play the role of promoting progress must be representatives of the interests of the masses as well as the executors of the wishes of the masses.

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Cadres should be capable of climbing upward and going downward, advancing and retreating, serving as officials and acting as ordinary citizens.

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The deeds of this generation of heroes are immortal; truly we daresay that the old-timers may put the latecomers to shame.

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In selecting cadres, particularly team leaders, it is necessity to propound'the democratic spirit, take the mass line, refrain from listening, believing, liking or detesting any one side or blindly trusting one's own special views. There must be a healthy system to govern the appointment and dismissal of cadres so that the populace have the power to elect and dismiss the personnel serving them.

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Looking at the present mirrors the past; without the past, the present does not exist.

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In the macroscopic superseding of the old by the new, a new generation of young successors will emerge.

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The role of the collective or of the masses shall never be downgraded and the role of the individual should not be played up at will.

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Not one of the leadership persons is a deity; all of them cannot but have their own defects and mistakes and none should be deified.

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Leadership of proletarian political parties and socialist countries, according to what Lenin said, generally does not consist of a single person but a group of persons formed by the people and called as leaders.

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About Deng Xiaoping:
Vice-Premier Deng's visit to the United States was one of far-reaching significance and had achieved major results.

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The individual who is truly 100 percent perfect does not exist; the central force lies in the group and not in any one individual.

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No single individual can possess knowledge on all sides; it is impossible to demand of an individual to know everything [...] Hence, no individual can be perfect. Perfection can be sought only from the collective.

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An office in political power is only a post in service of the people, it is not an official job to ride roughshod over others.

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The power of leadership cadres at various levels was bestowed by the people. The people are the masters of the state and society while we ourselves are servants of the people. We should use the power bestowed on us by the people to wholeheartedly work for the people's interests.

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An elderly person likes to praise the dusk hours, with the evening glare lighting the green hills all around.

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Valuable it is in life to grow a bamboo tree in one's bosom, to help pass the hours of difficulties and trials.

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The retreat of many elderly comrades from leadership posts is needed for the development of the party enterprise.

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