Mao Zedong Quotes

Mao Zedong presents stark political musings that expose fear-driven patriotism, appealing to readers curious about radical ideology.

27 quotes

1. ????,???? (Simplified Chinese), ????,???? (Traditional Chinese), baihuaqifang, baijiazhengming (Pinyin)

2. Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

3. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

4. The cult of xenophobia is the cheapest and surest method of obtaining from the masses the ignorant and savage patriotism, which puts the blame for every political folly or social misfortune upon the foreigner.

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

6. I don't care if we're so poor we can't afford to wear pants; I want that bomb built.

7. It's always darkest before it's totally black.

8. Mao Zedong Biography From Spartacus Educational

9. WikiMaoist A Mao Zedong Wiki

10. CNN profile

11. The Mao Zedong Reference Archive at marxists.org

12. The Mao Zedong Reference Archive at marx2mao.org

13. Collected Works of Mao Zedong at the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM) a sect of Maoism

14. Mao Zedong portal from the PLA Daily; includes some photos and poetry

15. Mao Zedong on propaganda posters Set of propaganda paintings showing Mao Zedong as the great leader of China.

16. The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

17. We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

18. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

19. At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

20. Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

21. Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

22. In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not.

23. New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

24. It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement. The more problems you elucidate and the more comprehensively and profoundly you do so, the greater will be your achievement.

25. It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

26. Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

27. We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.