Somebody asked about these quotations on a translation listserv. Mao Zedong is reputed to have said, "以千分之五的比例杀人" ("Kill five out of every thousand") and Deng Xiaoping to have said, "杀他个二十万，稳定它二十年" ("If you kill 200,000, you will have twenty years of stability")
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