Mao Zedong Quotes

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• Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from…
• Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be…
• Without a People's army, the people have nothing.
• This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of…
• The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in…
• We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but…
• Our national defense will be consolidated and no imperialist will be allowed to invade our territory again. Our People's armed forces must be maintained and…
• Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
• All our officers and fighters must always bear in mind that we are the great People's Liberation Army, we are the troops led by the…
• In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of…
• The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the…
• If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
• We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should…
• Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.
• We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.
• It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but…
• ...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.
• The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
• All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be…
• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

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