The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must… — 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 rely on the majority of the masses and win their support. — 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)
