Ma Jian Quotes and its meanings

What does Ma Jian write about?

Ma Jian has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about freedom, history, society & strength. People always share Freedom quotes, History quotes, society & strength from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Ma Jian?

Here are the top most famous quotes by 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 is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
• 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 information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
• 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.