"If we adopt a one-person, one-vote system now, everybody would support carving up properties before talking about private property protection. This would pull China into a situation beyond redemption."
Liu Chuanzhi, honorary chairman of the board of Lenovo,
on Chinese democratic reform, in an interview with the Economic Observer on Friday.
"The move misused public kindness. It undermines basic morality."
Shi Ying, deputy director of Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences,
on a primary school in Shaanxi built with charity funds being appropriated and rented out by the local village committee as a car showroom, quoted by the Beijing News yesterday.