Mao Zedong quotes

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. (Mao Zedong)
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. it looks terrible but in fact it isn't. Of course, the atom bomb is a weapon of mass slaughter, but the outcome of a war is decided by the people--not by one of two new types of weapon.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
Mao Zedong
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!
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Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
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Without a People's army, the people have nothing. (Mao Zedong)
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.
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Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.
Mao Zedong
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong
Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.
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If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.
Mao Zedong
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion causes apathy and creates dissension. It robs the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and strict discipline, prevents policies from being carried through and alienates the Party organization from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.
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)
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
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.
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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.
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Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
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