The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. — 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
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that… — 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
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
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 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