Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people;… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The correctness of any of our policies has always to be tested and is always being tested by the masses themselves. We… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . .… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share
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… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share
