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
We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
"Don't you want to abolish state power?" Yes, we do, but not right now. We cannot do it yet. Why? Because imperialism… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by… — 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
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
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
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
What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the… — 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
All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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… — 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
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this… — 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
![“In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism . . . [Stalin] proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter. . . . Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied . . . [to] see what is correct and what is not.” quote by Mao Zedong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2af/mao-zedong-1123_fighter_in-the-struggle-to-defend-the-legacy-of_67510.jpg)
