110+ Mao Zedong Quotes On Youth, War And Education

Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao was responsible for the implementation of policies such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which had a significant impact on the political and economic landscape of China. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mao Zedong on youth, war, education.

Top 10 Mao Zedong Quotes

1. All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
2. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
3. Civilize the mind but make savage the body.
4. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
5. To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.
6. Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
7. In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
8. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
9. The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
10. We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

Mao Zedong Short Quotes

• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
• Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.
• Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
• Imperialism is a paper tiger.
• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
• Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
• Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.
• Let a hundred flowers bloom.
• In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.
• The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

Mao Zedong Quotes About War

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. — 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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. — Mao Zedong

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory. — Mao Zedong

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. — Mao Zedong

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. — Mao Zedong

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes. — Mao Zedong

As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them. — Mao Zedong

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Education

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. — Mao Zedong

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression. — Mao Zedong

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

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Communism

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

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy. — Mao Zedong

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified. — Mao Zedong

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong

In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy. Never before have the masses of the people been so inspired, so militant and so daring as at present. — Mao Zedong

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after. — Mao Zedong

We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current. — Mao Zedong

The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph. — Mao Zedong

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. — Mao Zedong

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Revolution

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

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. — Mao Zedong

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution. — Mao Zedong

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity. — Mao Zedong

It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism. — Mao Zedong

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. — Mao Zedong

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong

The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries. — Mao Zedong

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

A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Capitalism

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism. — Mao Zedong

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Revolutionary

People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs. — Mao Zedong

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better — Mao Zedong

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just. — 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

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare — he can learn through fighting in a war. — Mao Zedong

Without a People's army, the people have nothing. — Mao Zedong

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces. — Mao Zedong

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About People

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill. — Mao Zedong

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people. — Mao Zedong

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you. — Mao Zedong

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

All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right. — Mao Zedong

If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. — Mao Zedong

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. — Mao Zedong

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons. — Mao Zedong

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits. — Mao Zedong

The Chinese people have stood up. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Enemy

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — Mao Zedong

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

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. — Mao Zedong

Complacency is the enemy of study. — Mao Zedong

What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people. — Mao Zedong

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports — Mao Zedong

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord. — Mao Zedong

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. — Mao Zedong

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. — Mao Zedong

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Politics

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything. — Mao Zedong

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

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul. — Mao Zedong

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal. — Mao Zedong

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position. — Mao Zedong

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. — Mao Zedong

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in fighting bravely, carrying out orders, observing discipline, doing political work and fostering internal unity and solidarity. — Mao Zedong

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped. — Mao Zedong

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work. — Mao Zedong

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Quotes About Reactionaries

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

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful. — Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers. — Mao Zedong

It is right to rebel against reactionaries. — Mao Zedong

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right. — Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Famous Quotes And Sayings

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater. — Mao Zedong

Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means. — Mao Zedong

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know. — Mao Zedong

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. — Mao Zedong

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

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

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

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. — Mao Zedong

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome. — Mao Zedong

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. — Mao Zedong

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

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

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. — Mao Zedong

Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist. — Mao Zedong

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors. — Mao Zedong

Women hold up half the sky. — Mao Zedong

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

When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing. — Mao Zedong

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine. — Mao Zedong

That has less significance than a dog's fart. — Mao Zedong

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. — 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

A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others. — Mao Zedong

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood. — Mao Zedong

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 — Mao Zedong

To read too many books is harmful. — 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

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge. — Mao Zedong

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. — Mao Zedong

Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support. — Mao Zedong

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment. — Mao Zedong

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever. — Mao Zedong

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. — Mao Zedong

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy. — Mao Zedong

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: 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. — Mao Zedong

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. — Mao Zedong

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people. — Mao Zedong

Life Lessons by Mao Zedong

1. Mao Zedong taught the importance of hard work and perseverance, emphasizing that great things can be achieved through dedication and effort.
2. He also believed in the power of collective action, showing that working together can create positive change.
3. Finally, Mao Zedong believed in the importance of self-reliance, advocating for people to take responsibility for their own actions and decisions.