Mao Zedong Quotes, Thoughts and images

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

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

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

To read too many books is harmful.

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

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

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

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

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

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

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

Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

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

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

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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

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.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

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

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

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

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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.