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Mao Zedong (Politician)

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 Zedong writing
Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?
— Mao Zedong people
Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.
— Mao Zedong man
"You are dictatorial." My dear sirs, you are right, that is just what we are. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
— Mao Zedong people
Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards thetoo. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.
— Mao Zedong war
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
— Mao Zedong people
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.
— Mao Zedong sin
All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
— Mao Zedong world
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
— Mao Zedong politics
People who try to commit suicide — don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
— Mao Zedong people
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
— Mao Zedong power
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
— Mao Zedong war
Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul…
— Mao Zedong soul
我这个人是被许多人恨的，特别是彭德怀同志，他是恨死了我的；不恨死了，也有若干恨。我跟彭德怀同志的政策是这样的：『人不犯我，我不犯人；人若犯我，我必犯人。』过去跟我兄弟也是这样。庐山会议实录 I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You dont touch me, I dont touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesnt change a thing.
— Mao Zedong change
Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.
— Mao Zedong war
I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon)
— Mao Zedong you
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 Zedong writing
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
— Mao Zedong action
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
— Mao Zedong art
There is in fact no such thing as art for arts sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
— Mao Zedong politics
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
— Mao Zedong culture
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
— Mao Zedong men
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.
— Mao Zedong knowledge
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
— Mao Zedong flowers
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.
— Mao Zedong science
To read too many books is harmful.
— Mao Zedong books
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
— Mao Zedong history
The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tigers defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.
— Mao Zedong god
There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay.
— Mao Zedong art
I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You dont touch me, I dont touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesnt change a thing.
— Mao Zedong change
Referring to the Kuomintang There are many stubborn elements, graduates in the speciality schools of stubbornness. They are stubborn today, they will be stubborn tomorrow, and they will be stubborn the day after tomorrow. What is stubbornness wan gu? Gu is to be stiff. Wan is to not progress: not today, nor tomorrow, nor the day after tomorrow. People like that are called the stubborn elements. It is not an easy thing to make the stubborn elements listen to our words.
— Mao Zedong people
Stalin is our greatest father and teacher. In the name of Chinese people and Chinese Communist Party, we celebrate comrade Stalins seventy birthday. May he be in the best health and live a long life! Leader of both the worlds working class and Communist Internationale — Ten thousand years of life to Stalin!
— Mao Zedong life
The country is so beautiful, where so many heroes had devoted their lives into it. Sorry that the Qin Emperor or the Han Wu Emperor lacks a sense for literacy; while the founders of the Tang and Song dynasties came short in style. The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
— Mao Zedong past

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