Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONGPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONGOnce all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
MAO ZEDONGWe shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
MAO ZEDONGAn army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
MAO ZEDONGPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO ZEDONGHe thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
MAO ZEDONGThe cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
MAO ZEDONGThe atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
MAO ZEDONGThe people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
MAO ZEDONGThe differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
MAO ZEDONGLet a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
MAO ZEDONGA revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
MAO ZEDONGSuch is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
MAO ZEDONGLearn from the masses, and then teach them.
MAO ZEDONGAll reactionaries are paper tigers.
MAO ZEDONGThere is in fact no such thing as art for art’s 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