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Revolution Quotes by Mao Zedong
- If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
- 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.
- A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
- To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road…
- Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
- The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action.…
- How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow…
- Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section…
- 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…
- The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This…
- Without armed struggle neither the proletariat, nor the people, nor the Communist Party would have any standing at all in China and it would be…
- Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
- As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.
- The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army... . Without armed struggle there would be no place for…
- Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
- A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the…
- Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
- The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
- Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the…
- A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
- A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely…
- Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately,…
- The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams