Mao Zedong

Complacency is the enemy of study.

— Mao Zedong

An army of the people is invincible!

— Mao Zedong

I voted for you during your last election.

— Mao Zedong

To read too many books is harmful.

— Mao Zedong

I am alone with the masses.

— Mao Zedong

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

— Mao Zedong

Man must conquer nature.

— Mao Zedong

The Chinese people have stood up.

— Mao Zedong

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

— Mao Zedong

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

— Mao Zedong

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

— Mao Zedong

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

— Mao Zedong

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

— Mao Zedong

Whoever has an army has power, and war decides everything.

— Mao Zedong

“The mountain goddess if she is still there Will marvel at a world so changed.”

— Mao Zedong

People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

— Mao Zedong

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing…

— Mao Zedong

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step…

— Mao Zedong

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international…

— Mao Zedong

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

— Mao Zedong

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to…

— Mao Zedong

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion…

— Mao Zedong

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the…

— Mao Zedong

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns…

— Mao Zedong

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward…

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would…

— Mao Zedong

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions…

— Mao Zedong

All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops…

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with…

— Mao Zedong

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term…

— Mao Zedong

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is…

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

“The struggle of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part of the general struggle of al…

— Mao Zedong

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is a corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy and creates…

— Mao Zedong

Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves…

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to…

— Mao Zedong

The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable…

— Mao Zedong