Mao Zedong Quotes - Page 2

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

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

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

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

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

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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 organizations from the masses which the Party leads. It is an extremely bad tendency.

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.