Quotes By Mao Zedong

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

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.

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

Let a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

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

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.

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

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.