At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is 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
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas),… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In order to build a great socialist society it is of the utmost importance to arouse the broad masses of women to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an...… — 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
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
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
In addition to the leadership of the Party, a decisive factor is our population of 600 million. More people mean a greater… — 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
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. — 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
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
