Mao Zedong Quotes

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

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.

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

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

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

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

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

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

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

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

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

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

In times of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

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

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

To read too many books is harmful.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.