Famous quotes containing the words left and/or rule:
“Women ... are the permanent victims.”
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 6 (1980)
“In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)