Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
MAO ZEDONGWeapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
MAO ZEDONGThe guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO ZEDONGSwollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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 ZEDONGPolitical work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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 ZEDONGLet a hundred flowers bloom.
MAO ZEDONGWe think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
MAO ZEDONGPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO ZEDONGTo read too many books is harmful.
MAO ZEDONGLet a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
MAO ZEDONGAll reactionaries are paper tigers.
MAO ZEDONGA revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
MAO ZEDONGWomen hold up half the sky.
MAO ZEDONGCommunism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
MAO ZEDONGSuch is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
MAO ZEDONG