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Ma Jian Quotes

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Ma Jian

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Tags: china, female, females, male chauvinism, oppression, rural peasants, womenhood

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Ma Jian

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

Tags: history, values, people, moral

About Author
Ma Jian may refer to:

Muhammad Ma Jian (马坚, 1906–1978), Chinese Confucian scholar and Islamic jurist
Ma Jian (writer) (马建, born 1953), Chinese writer
Ma Jian (politician) (马建, born 1956), former Vice Minister of State Security of China
Ma Jian (basketball) (马健, born 1969), Chinese basketball player and occasional actor
Jian Ma (computer scientist) (马坚), American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University working on computational biology

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the inform...

Ma Jian

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the inform...

Tags: society

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...

Ma Jian

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...

Tags: freedom, people, opinions, want

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

Ma Jian

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.

Tags: travel

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a pluralit...

Ma Jian

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a pluralit...

Tags: strength

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule...

Ma Jian

Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule...

Tags: art, child, loved