It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps. — 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
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
Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would… — 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
By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it… — 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
We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — 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
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
The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and… — 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
All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops… — 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 Image
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 Image
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 Image
In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . .… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 Image
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 Image