Two Quotes by Mao Zedong

15 Two quotes by Mao Zedong

Mao’s fifteen short statements on the notion of two fuse ideology with practical strategy, showing how the concept can be wielded in political discourse. The collection is compact yet packed with the leader’s characteristic fervor.

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As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

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History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that…

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In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

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It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an...…

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

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

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We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under…

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It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…

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We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New…

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Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it…

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Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the…

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The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly…

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

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It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can…

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Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners…

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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

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It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

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Complacency is the enemy of study.

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Women hold up half the sky.

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