Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Talk at an Enlarged Central Work Conference (30 January 1962)
1960s
Original: (zh-CN) 批评和自我批评是一种方法,是解决人民内部矛盾的方法,而且是唯一的方法。
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Methodical Realism
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
Talk at an Enlarged Central Work Conference (30 January 1962)
1960s
Original: (zh-CN) 批评和自我批评是一种方法,是解决人民内部矛盾的方法,而且是唯一的方法。
Edmund White (1940) American novelist and LGBT essayist
Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_ewhite.html (1994) <br class="br">Articles and Interviews
“The realist method starts with the whole in order to distinguish the parts.”
Étienne Gilson (1884–1978) French historian and philosopher
Methodical Realism
“Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?”
Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number
Source: I've Got Your Number
Louis C.K. (1967) American comedian and actor
[ http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-annotated-wisdom-of-louis-c-k/
Gwynfor Evans (1912–2005) Welsh politician
Welsh Nationalist Aims http://www.gwynfor.net/lluniau/welsh-nationalist-aims.pdf Published 1966-1970.
“We can say that voting […] is at the heart of both the method and the ideal of democracy.”
William H. Riker (1920–1993) American political scientist
Liberalism Against Populism (1982)
“Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
As quoted in Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: Life and Legacy (1994), p. 203.
Attributions
“Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun