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Top 25 Ma Jian Quotes (2025 Update)

Ma Jian Quote: “When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.”

1. “When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.”

Ma Jian Quote: “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.”

2. “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.”

Ma Jian Quote: “Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.”

3. “Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.”

Ma Jian Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

Ma Jian Quote: “In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.”

5. “In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”

6. “I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.”

Ma Jian Quote: “Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.”

7. “Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.”

Ma Jian Quote: “China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.”

8. “China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.”

Ma Jian Quote: “Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.”

9. “Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.”

10. “I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.”

Ma Jian Quote: “It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

11. “It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.”

Ma Jian Quote: “But utopias always lead to dystopias, and dictators invariably become gods who demand daily worship.”

12. “But utopias always lead to dystopias, and dictators invariably become gods who demand daily worship.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I don’t know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

13. “I don’t know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”

Ma Jian Quote: “The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life.”

14. “The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life.”

Ma Jian Quote: “Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.”

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

Ma Jian Quote: “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 plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.”

16. “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 plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people’s lives.”

17. “I paint as the mood takes me- it is an emotional release. But in this society moods and images can incriminate you. Writing is much safer for me. I can hide myself behind a maze of words and the details of people’s lives.”

Ma Jian Quote: “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.”

18. “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 Quote: “The Beijing Olympics represent China’s grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.”

19. “The Beijing Olympics represent China’s grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.”

Ma Jian Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I feel I have walked onto a stage. The people around me are absorbed in their parts, putting on this great show, but nothing seems real. Every object looks like a prop. Since I have no part I am reduced to the role of a spectator, but there is nowhere to sit, so I have to mingle with the actors on stage. It is a terrible feeling.”

21. “I feel I have walked onto a stage. The people around me are absorbed in their parts, putting on this great show, but nothing seems real. Every object looks like a prop. Since I have no part I am reduced to the role of a spectator, but there is nowhere to sit, so I have to mingle with the actors on stage. It is a terrible feeling.”

Ma Jian Quote: “I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.”

22. “I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.”

Ma Jian Quote: “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.”

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

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

Ma Jian Quote: “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. I want to think on my feet, live on the run.”

25. “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. I want to think on my feet, live on the run.”

Ma Jian Quote: “If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don’t mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.”

26. “If there is road in front of me, I will follow it. I don’t mind where it goes, as long as it takes me forward.”

Ma Jian Quote: “In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.”

27. “In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.”

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