Mao Zedong Quotes

An army of the people is invincible!

~ Mao Zedong

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

~ Mao Zedong

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.

~ Mao Zedong

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

~ Mao Zedong

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

~ Mao Zedong

Make criticism in good time, don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.

~ Mao Zedong

Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.

~ Mao Zedong

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

~ Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

~ Mao Zedong

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

~ Mao Zedong

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

~ Mao Zedong

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

~ Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

~ Mao Zedong

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

~ Mao Zedong

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

~ Mao Zedong

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

~ Mao Zedong

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

~ Mao Zedong

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

~ Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

~ Mao Zedong

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

~ Mao Zedong

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

~ Mao Zedong

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

~ Mao Zedong

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

~ Mao Zedong