Mao Tse-Tung Quotes
A Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader.
(1893 - 1976)
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
[History]
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
[Enable]
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
[Change]
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
[Nature]
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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