Mao Zedong Quotes - Page 3

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• We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

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  Struggle, Would Be, World

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• Women hold up half the sky.

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  Attitude, Sky, Half

  Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.558, M.E. Sharpe

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• It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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  Black

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• Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

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  War, People, Would Be

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• Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

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  Enemy, Hammers, Use

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• 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 circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

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  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

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  Light, Government, Cities

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• The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

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  War, Law, Enemy

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

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• Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

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  War, Looks, World

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• People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

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  Running, Dog, People

  1958 Speech, Jul.

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• All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

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  People, Chinese, Speak

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung: An Anthology of His Writings”

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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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  Differences, Lost Friendship

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• Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

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  Children, Giving, Fishes

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• 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 oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

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  Communication, Mean, Army

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• You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

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  Past, Down And, Facts

  Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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• In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

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  Struggle, Sight, Achievement

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

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• The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

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  Stars, Chinese, Sparks

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• Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

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  Mistake, People, Truth Is

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.270, China Books

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• At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

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  People, Ordinary, Mass

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 1: Pre-Marxist Period, 1912-20: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.65, Routledge

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• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

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  Struggle, Class, Wings

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

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• Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

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  Party, Army, Gun

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

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• Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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  Nature, Flower, School

  Zedong Mao (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.330, M.E. Sharpe

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• Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

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  Voice, People, Opinion

  Zedong Mao (1950). “On People's Democratic Dictatorship”

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• It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

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  Bourgeoisie, Good Things, Significant

  Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works: The period of the socialist revolution and socialist construction. (I)”

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