Mao Zedong Quotes

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.

I voted for you during your last election.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

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

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.

To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

Women hold up half the sky.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

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.

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

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

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.

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

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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.

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

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

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.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

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.

People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

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

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

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.

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

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.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible.

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.

The Chinese people have stood up.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

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

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

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

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

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

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.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.