Mao Zedong Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mao Zedong on Wise Famous Quotes.
Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.
the imperialist prophets are pinning their hopes of "peaceful evolution" on the third or fourth generation of the Chinese Party.
We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
In our international relations, we Chinese people should get rid of great-power chauvinism resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely.
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine ...
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are anarchism,
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
But the basic principle of guerrilla warfare must be the offensive, and guerrilla warfare is more offensive in its character than regular warfare.
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.
Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.
Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.
There should be celebration rallies when people die ... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.
Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.