Mao Zedong > Quotes

“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 magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“To read too many books is harmful.”
― Mao Zedong

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung

“Women hold up half the sky.”
― Mao Zedong

“Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”
― Mao Tse-tung

“The struggle of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part of the general struggle of al the people of the world against U.S. imperialism, a component part of the contemporary world revolution. I call on the workers, peasants, and revolutionary intellectuals of all countries and all who are willing to fight against U.S. imperialism to take action and extend strong support to the struggle of the Black people in the United States! People of the whole world, unite still more closely and launch a sustained and vigorous offensive against our common enemy, U.S. imperialism, and its accomplices! It can be said with certainty that the complete collapse of colonialism, imperialism, and all systems of exploitation, and the complete emancipation of all the oppressed peoples and nations of the world are not far off.”
― Mao Zedong

“An army of the people is invincible!”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish”
― Mao Tse Tung

“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

“Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.”
― Mao Zedong

“You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chilies.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.”
― Mao Zedong

“When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“...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

“History is a symptom of our disease”
― Mao Tse-tung

“To rebel is justified”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“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, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

“I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.”
― mao tse-tung

“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 Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Selected Works

“The Communist party must control the guns.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Everything under heaven is in utter choas; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung

“Historical experience is written in iron and blood.”
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare

“Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel.”
― Mao Zedong

“Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating honey, and thus far you have never known suffering. In the future, if you do not become a rightist, but rather a centrist, I shall be satisfied. You have never suffered--how can you be a leftist?"
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― Mao Tse Tung

“A potential revolutionary situation exists in any country where the government consistently fails in its obligation to ensure at least a minimally decent standard of life for the great majority of its citizens.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare

“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 Tse-Tung