We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as… — 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… — 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
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
Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse -… — 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
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that… — 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
Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency. — 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… — 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
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