The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment...… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the… — 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
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
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should… — 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
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
As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable… — 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
Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not… — 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
A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they… — 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
We should encourage comrades to take the interests of the whole into account. Every Party member, every branch of work, every statement… — 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
At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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
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
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
