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Mao Zedong Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the chinese leader Mao Zedong on topics like people, enemy, revolution

  • Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

    — Mao Zedong on power
    9
  • In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

    — Mao Zedong on continuously
    9
  • To read too many books is harmful.

    — Mao Zedong on reading
    6
  • Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

    — Mao Zedong on grasped
    5
  • Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

    — Mao Zedong on education
    4
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  • All reactionaries are paper tigers.

    — Mao Zedong on conservatism
    3
  • Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

    — Mao Zedong on communist
    3
  • Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

    — Mao Zedong on history
    3
  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

    — Mao Zedong on politics
    3
  • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

    — Mao Zedong on dinner
    2
  • Let a hundred flowers bloom.

    — Mao Zedong on bloom
    2
  • Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

    — Mao Zedong on communism
    2
  • About Mao Zedong

    Name Mao Zedong
    Quotes 38 quotations
    Nationality Chinese
    Profession Leader
    Birthday December 26, 1893
    About Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
    Top topics people, enemy, revolution, politics, reactionaries
  • All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers.

    The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

    — Mao Zedong on fanaticism
    1
  • The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

    — Mao Zedong on people
    1
  • Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

    — Mao Zedong on masses
    1
  • Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

    — Mao Zedong on enemy
    1
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  • Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

    — Mao Zedong on nature
    1
  • Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.

    Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

    — Mao Zedong on class
    0
  • In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

    — Mao Zedong on long
    0
  • Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

    — Mao Zedong on belly
    0
  • The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

    — Mao Zedong on fish
    0
  • 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 on art
    0
  • Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

    — Mao Zedong on politics
    0
  • I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.

    On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

    — Mao Zedong on masses
    0
  • An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

    — Mao Zedong on military
    0
  • Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor;

    it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

    — Mao Zedong on war
    0
  • Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

    — Mao Zedong on culture
    0
  • Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

    — Mao Zedong on birth
    0
  • 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 on peace
    0
  • 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 on revolution
    0
  • 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 on knowledge
    0
  • 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 on cardinal
    0
  • The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

    — Mao Zedong on enemy
    0
  • We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.

    He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

    — Mao Zedong on big
    0
  • The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

    — Mao Zedong on atom
    0
  • I voted for you during your last election.

    — Mao Zedong on election
    0
  • So long as a person who has made mistakes.

    .. honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

    — Mao Zedong on mistakes
    0
  • People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

    — Mao Zedong on big
    0
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