Quotes By Mao Zedong

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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

I voted for you during your last election.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

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.

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

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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

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

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

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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.

Women hold up half the sky.

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

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

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

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.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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

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

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

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

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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

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.

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.

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