If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic… — 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
To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li… The Chinese revolution is great,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part of the general struggle of al… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just,… — 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
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
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a… — 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
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