People Quotes by Mao Zedong

An army of the people is invincible!

— Mao Zedong

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

— Mao Zedong

The Chinese people have stood up.

— Mao Zedong

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

— Mao Zedong

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

— Mao Zedong

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

— Mao Zedong

People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

— Mao Zedong

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

— Mao Zedong

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

— Mao Zedong

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

— Mao Zedong

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

— Mao Zedong

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust,…

— Mao Zedong

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

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

— Mao Zedong

People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It…

— Mao Zedong

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international…

— Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term…

— Mao Zedong

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

The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight;…

— Mao Zedong

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development…

— Mao Zedong

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they…

— Mao Zedong

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so…

— Mao Zedong

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not…

— Mao Zedong

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

Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with…

— Mao Zedong

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

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions…

— Mao Zedong

Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must…

— Mao Zedong

By over-all planning, we mean planning which takes into consideration the interests of the 600 million people of our country. In drawing…

— Mao Zedong

Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension…

— Mao Zedong

After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in…

— Mao Zedong

Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and…

— Mao Zedong

Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has…

— Mao Zedong

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just,…

— Mao Zedong

The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without…

— Mao Zedong

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

— Mao Zedong

People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it…

— Mao Zedong

As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince…

— Mao Zedong

All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to…

— Mao Zedong

The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and…

— Mao Zedong