Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with… — 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
While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he… — 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
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 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
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