Ma Jian Quotes

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren’t allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone’s individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.