Chinese Proverbs Refute Chairman Mao's Droppings (牛粪)

  To sleep well again after Krushchev (secretly)denounced Stalin, and the intellectuals

  led an uprising in communist Hungary, he "let a thousand flowers bloom" in order to lure

  out the snakes of independent thinking.  After, bludgeoned by criticism, more than half a million atone

  with manual labor in reeducation camps for thinking freely, their lives forever marked and scarred.

  A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

  Because sparrows eat grain, and for other perceived anti-revolutionary tendencies,

  he mobilized the people to defend the nation.  Neighborhoods, households and work

  units poured outside to shout, beat pans and make a rumpus continuously so that

  the bandit sparrows, safe only in the air and in flight, could not find any safe perch,

  and, drowning in exhaustion, would repent their crimes and drop from the sky dead.

  It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely.

  To make a "Great Leap Forward" he proclaimed that, to become a great nation

  "Everybody make steel."  To meet steel quotas, in homes, offices and all work places,

   in furnaces large and small, people melted scrap iron and tended fires day and night

   fed with wood from the newly bare mountains.  One hundred million peasants stopped

   farming for food and were redirected to help the nation achieve this revealed destiny.

   Patienceis a bitter plant, but its fruit is sweet.