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“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“History is a symptom of our disease”
― 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

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

“To rebel is justified”
― Mao Tse-tung

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

“...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 enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.”
― Mao Zedong, Selected Military Writings

“Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many.”
― 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

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

“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 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

“There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.” - Mao Zedong, Yu Chi Chan”
― Mao