Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung Quotes

“An army of the people is invincible!”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

“If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppress the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. Ibid.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

“Imperialism will not last long because it always does evil things. It persists in grooming and supporting reactionaries in all countries who are against the people, it has forcibly seized many colonies and semi-colonies and many military bases, and it threatens the peace with atomic war. Thus, forced by imperialism to do so, more than 90 per cent of the people of the world are rising or will rise in struggle against it. Yet, imperialism is still alive, still running amuck in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In the West imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situation must change. It is the task of the people of the whole world to put an end to the aggression and oppression perpetrated by imperialism, and chiefly by U.S. imperialism.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung 毛主席语录: The Little Red Book

“War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

“Ask your subordinates about matters you do not understand or do not know, and do not lightly express your approval or disapproval. . . . We should never pretend to know what we do not know, we should “not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below” and we should listen carefully to the views of the cadres at the lower levels. Be a pupil before you become a teacher; learn from the cadres at the lower levels before you issue orders. . . . What the cadres at the lower levels say may or may not be correct, after hearing it, we must analyse it. We must heed the correct views and act upon them. . . . Listen also to the mistaken views from below, it is wrong not to listen to them at all. Such views, however, are not to be acted upon but to be criticized.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall.”
― Mao Zedong, Mao's Quotations: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung/The Little Red Book

“Lacking an analytical approach, many of our comrades do not want to go deeply into complex matters, to analyse and study them over and over again, but like to draw simple conclusions which are either absolutely affirmative or absolutely negative. . . . From now on we should remedy this state of affairs.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.”
― Mao Zedong, The Little Red Book

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“or does not study how to run meetings successfully.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“It is mainly because of the unorganized state of the Chinese masses that Japan dares to bully us.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“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 back the wheel of history, sooner or later revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.”
― Mao Zedong, The Little Red Book

“A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, Annotated: The world`s most prominent work

“Therefore, before any action is taken, we must explain the policy, which we have formulated in the light of the given circumstances, to Party members and to the masses. Otherwise, Party members and the masses will depart from the guidance of our policy, act blindly and carry out a wrong policy.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

“the imperialist prophets are pinning their hopes of “peaceful evolution” on the third or fourth generation of the Chinese Party.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“In our international relations, we Chinese people should get rid of great-power chauvinism resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“Revisionism, or Right opportunism, is a bourgeois trend of thought that is even more dangerous than dogmatism. The revisionists, the Right opportunists, pay lip-service to Marxism; they too attack "dogmatism". But what they are really attacking is the quintessence of Marxism. They oppose or distort materialism and dialectics, oppose or try to weaken the people's democratic dictatorship and the leading role of the Communist Party, and oppose or try to weaken socialist transformation and socialist construction. After the basic victory of the socialist revolution in our country, there are still
a number of people who vainly hope to restore the capitalist system and fight the working class on every front, including the ideological one. And their
right-hand men in this struggle are the revisionists.”
― Mao Zedong, The Little Red Book

“A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Sólo quienes abordan los problemas de manera subjetiva, unilateral y superficial dictan órdenes presuntuosamente apenas llegan a un nuevo lugar, sin considerar las circunstancias, sin examinar las cosas en su totalidad (su historia y su situación actual en conjunto) ni penetrar en su esencia (su naturaleza y las relaciones”
― Mao Zedong, El libro rojo

“Lenin dice que el análisis concreto de la situación concreta es «lo más esencial del marxismo, el alma viva del marxismo». Muchos de nuestros camaradas, poco acostumbrados a pensar en forma analítica, no quieren analizar y estudiar repetida y profundamente las cosas complejas, sino que prefieren formular conclusiones simplistas que son absolutamente afirmativas o absolutamente negativas. (…) Desde ahora, debemos remediar este estado de cosas.”
― Mao Zedong, El libro rojo

“¿De dónde provienen las ideas correctas del hombre? ¿Caen del cielo? No. ¿Son innatas en su cerebro? No. Provienen únicamente de la práctica social, de los tres tipos de práctica social: la lucha por la producción, la lucha de clases y la experimentación científica. «¿De dónde provienen las ideas correctas?» (mayo de 1963).”
― Mao Zedong, El libro rojo

“Only a blockhead cudgels his brains on his own, or together with a group, to “find a solution” or “evolve an idea” without making any investigation.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung