Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce. — 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
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — 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
The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
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 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