--- title: "30 Ifs Quotes By Mao Zedong" description: "30 Ifs quotes by Mao Zedong. Plus more from Mao Zedong and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/mao-zedong-1123_chinese-revolution_if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-metho_875315.jpg" --- > [If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-methods-of-revolution-you-must/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/mao-zedong-1123_chinese-revolution_if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-metho_875315.jpg) > [If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-struggle-there-would-be-no/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/mao-zedong-1123_contradiction_if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-s_1281138.jpg) > [If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-oneself-to-conventional-weapons/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/mao-zedong-1123_conventional_if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-one_325826.jpg) > [Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/maybe-you-re-afraid-of-sinking-don-t-think-about-it-if-you-don-t/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/800/mao-zedong-1123_afraid_maybe-you-re-afraid-of-sinking-don-t-thi_135488.jpg) > [If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-you-want-to-know-the-taste-of-a-pear-you-must-change-the-pear-by/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/mao-zedong-1123_eating_if-you-want-to-know-the-taste-of-a-pear_2305436.jpg) > [People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/people-who-try-to-commit-suicide-don-t-attempt-to-save-them-china-is/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/124/mao-zedong-1123_china_people-who-try-to-commit-suicide-don-t-a_2082383.jpg) > [If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-we-did-ten-things-nine-were-bad-and-got-disclosed-by-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/792/mao-zedong-1123_army_if-we-did-ten-things-nine-were-bad-and-g_163036.jpg) > [The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/the-question-is-not-whether-or-not-there-should-be-a-cult-of-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eef/mao-zedong-1123_concerned_the-question-is-not-whether-or-not-there_364823.jpg) > [The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/the-membership-of-our-party-is-necessarily-a-small-portion-of-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ca/mao-zedong-1123_chinese_the-membership-of-our-party-is-necessari_2749488.jpg) > [It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-is-necessary-to-master-marxist-theory-and-apply-it-master-it-for-2/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/mao-zedong-1123_achievement_it-is-necessary-to-master-marxist-theory_2615268.jpg) > [A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/a-man-s-head-is-not-like-a-scallion-which-will-grow-again-if-you-cut/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/07e/mao-zedong-1123_cutting_a-man-s-head-is-not-like-a-scallion-whic_2375568.jpg) > [Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/don-t-make-a-fuss-about-a-world-war-at-most-people-die-half-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac5/mao-zedong-1123_chinese_don-t-make-a-fuss-about-a-world-war-at-m_1533422.jpg) > [If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-we-have-a-correct-theory-but-merely-prate-about-it-pigeonhole-it/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/148/mao-zedong-1123_ifs_if-we-have-a-correct-theory-but-merely-p_1407204.jpg) > [Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/liupan-the-mountain-of-six-circles-dazzling-sky-to-the-far-cirrus/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f11/mao-zedong-1123_banner_liupan-the-mountain-of-six-circles-dazzl_3143376.jpg) > [It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-will-take-a-long-period-to-decide-the-issue-in-the-ideological/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/233/mao-zedong-1123_bourgeoisie_it-will-take-a-long-period-to-decide-the_1385150.jpg) > [While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/while-swimming-in-the-heavily-polluted-rivers-of-south-china-despite/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90a/mao-zedong-1123_china_while-swimming-in-the-heavily-polluted-r_851465.jpg) > [It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-is-good-that-since-the-outbreak-of-the-war-with-japan-more-and/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/mao-zedong-1123_doe_it-is-good-that-since-the-outbreak-of-th_804832.jpg) > [We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/we-desire-peace-however-if-imperialism-insists-on-fighting-a-war-we/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/838/mao-zedong-1123_accounts_we-desire-peace-however-if-imperialism-i_139179.jpg) > [Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/winds-flap-the-sail-tortoise-and-snake-are-silent-a-great-plan-looms/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf7/mao-zedong-1123_bridges_winds-flap-the-sail-tortoise-and-snake-a_53632.jpg) > [Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/let-s-contemplate-this-how-many-people-would-die-if-war-breaks-out/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/mao-zedong-1123_billions_let-s-contemplate-this-how-many-people-w_3014131.jpg) > [The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/the-wealth-of-society-is-created-by-the-workers-peasants-and-working/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/mao-zedong-1123_active_the-wealth-of-society-is-created-by-the_690157.jpg) > [So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/so-long-as-a-person-who-has-made-mistakes-honestly-and-sincerely/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af9/mao-zedong-1123_comrade_so-long-as-a-person-who-has-made-mistake_2263490.jpg) > [There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/there-is-a-serious-tendency-towards-capitalism-among-the-well-to-do/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/281/mao-zedong-1123_capitalism_there-is-a-serious-tendency-towards-capi_587781.jpg) > [It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-is-up-to-us-to-organize-the-people-as-for-the-reactionaries-in/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e29/mao-zedong-1123_brooms_it-is-up-to-us-to-organize-the-people-as_546224.jpg) > [Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/capture-of-nanking-rain-and-a-windstorm-rage-blue-and-yellow-over/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec7/mao-zedong-1123_bells_capture-of-nanking-rain-and-a-windstorm_2641091.jpg) > [We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/we-communists-must-be-able-to-integrate-ourselves-with-the-masses-in/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/96b/mao-zedong-1123_able_we-communists-must-be-able-to-integrate_2302899.jpg) > [Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/saying-good-bye-to-the-god-of-disease-1-mauve-waters-and-green/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9b/mao-zedong-1123_ancient_saying-good-bye-to-the-god-of-disease-1_554966.jpg) > [After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/after-the-enemies-with-guns-have-been-wiped-out-there-will-still-be/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e00/mao-zedong-1123_amendment_after-the-enemies-with-guns-have-been-wi_510073.jpg) > [Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/communists-must-listen-attentively-to-the-views-of-people-outside-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/mao-zedong-1123_communist_communists-must-listen-attentively-to-th_488100.jpg) > [It's sadly predictable that the only way you can come up with a way to celebrate the liberation you feel at leaving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-s-sadly-predictable-that-the-only-way-you-can-come-up-with-a-way/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f3/mao-zedong-1123_anarchy_it-s-sadly-predictable-that-the-only-way_2557273.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Mao Zedong > [Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/firstly-do-not-fear-hardship-and-secondly-do-not-fear-death/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/the-most-effective-method-of-propaganda-directed-at-the-enemy-forces/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/we-must-learn-to-do-economic-work-from-all-who-know-how-no-matter-who/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/a-revolution-is-not-a-dinner-party-or-writing-an-essay-or-painting-a/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/at-the-beginning-of-anything-out-of-the-ordinary-the-mass-of-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/winds-flap-the-sail-tortoise-and-snake-are-silent-a-great-plan-looms/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/let-a-hundred-flowers-bloom-let-a-hundred-schools-of-thought-contend/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [ In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . \[Stalin\] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . .… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/in-the-struggle-to-defend-the-legacy-of-leninism-stalin-proved/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/new-things-have-to-experience-difficulties-and-setbacks-as-they-grow/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-is-necessary-to-master-marxist-theory-and-apply-it-master-it-for/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/it-is-a-very-good-thing-and-a-significant-one-too-to-exterminate-the/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/return-to-shaoshan-i-regret-the-passing-the-dying-of-the-vague-dream/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/we-should-go-to-the-masses-and-learn-from-them-synthesize-their/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [Complacency is the enemy of study.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/complacency-is-the-enemy-of-study/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) > [Women hold up half the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/women-hold-up-half-the-sky/) [Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mao-zedong/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/mao-zedong/#itemlist", "name": "30 Ifs Quotes By Mao Zedong", "numberOfItems": 30, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mao Zedong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-methods-of-revolution-you-must/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/mao-zedong-1123_chinese-revolution_if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-metho_875315.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/mao-zedong-1123_chinese-revolution_if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-metho_875315.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e09/mao-zedong-1123_chinese-revolution_if-you-want-to-know-the-theory-and-metho_875315.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.” — Mao Zedong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mao Zedong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-struggle-there-would-be-no/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/mao-zedong-1123_contradiction_if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-s_1281138.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/mao-zedong-1123_contradiction_if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-s_1281138.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35d/mao-zedong-1123_contradiction_if-there-were-no-contradictions-and-no-s_1281138.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there…” — Mao Zedong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mao Zedong" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mao-zedong/if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-oneself-to-conventional-weapons/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/mao-zedong-1123_conventional_if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-one_325826.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/mao-zedong-1123_conventional_if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-one_325826.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c58/mao-zedong-1123_conventional_if-one-must-fight-one-should-confine-one_325826.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.” — Mao Zedong", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Maybe you're afraid of sinking. 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