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Class Quotes by Mao Zedong
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of…
- A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
- Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
- Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root…
- Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the…
- The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the…
- In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling…
- It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to…
- The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the…
- Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section…
- Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people…
- Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the…
- After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and…
- The imperialists and domestic reactionaries will certainly not take their defeat Lying down and they will struggle to the last ditch. After there is peace…
- It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that…
- War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups,…
- Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow…
More Class Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin