Mao Zedong Quotes

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  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 used to command the party.

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  Party, Gun, Political

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  When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

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  People, Half, Enough

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• Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

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  Benefits

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• Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

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  Love, Crush, Chinese Revolution

  Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

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• Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

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  Heaven, Chaos, Excellent

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• To read too many books is harmful.

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  Book, Reading, Evil

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

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• The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

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  Weed, Socialism, Crops

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• 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 imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

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  Two, People, Legs

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• People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

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  Suicide, People, Trying

  "Mao's Last Revolution". Book by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, 2006.

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• 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 and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

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  Party, Writing, Chinese Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.

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  War, People, Chinese

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• We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

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  Class, Support, Enemy

  Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

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  Thinking, People, Eras

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.147, Lulu.com

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• Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

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  Gun, Government, Muzzle

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• When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

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  Military, Enemy, Anarchy

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• Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

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  Views, Political, Soul

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.142, China Books

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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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  Long, Wake Up, Use

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• What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

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  Struggle, Self Reliance, Overcoming

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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

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  Hard Work, Adversity, Sight

  Zedong Mao (1967). “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao Tsê-tung”

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• Morality begins at the point of a gun.

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  Adversity, Gun, Morality

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• We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

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  Communication, Gun, Giving

  Zedong Mao (1959). “On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949”

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  All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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  Knowledge Experience, Pears, Genuine

  1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul.

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  The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

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  Chinese Revolution, People, History

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.118, China Books

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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