What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties.… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks. — 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
