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Revolutionary Quotes by 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 revolutionary forces.
- Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
- At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable…
- Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive…
- Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite…
- No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound…
- 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.…
- Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is…
- 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…
- People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to…
- The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
- There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of…
- Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which…
- The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and…
More Revolutionary Quotes
- 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
- John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he was actively… — Michele Bachmann
- Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. — Erykah Badu
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks… — James Buchan
- I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the… — Vince Cable
- Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus
- Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary. — Eric Cantona
- I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was… — Stokely Carmichael
- I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
- I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. — Fidel Castro