Quotes by Mao Zedong

“An army of the people is invincible!”

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

“...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 e...”

“History is a symptom of our disease”

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

“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 ...”

“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...”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“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 know...”

“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 prole...”

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

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