Mao Zedong on Dialectical Materialism Quotes

“Stalin has well said, "Theory which departs from practice is empty theory, practice which departs from theory gropes in the dark".”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement".”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“The most ridiculous person in the world is the "knowall" who picks up a smattering of hearsay knowledge and proclaims himself "the world's Number One authority";”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“Under given conditions the two classes also change from one to the other, such that the exploiters change into the exploited and the exploited change into the exploiters, and capitalist society is transformed into a socialist society.”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“Lenin said: The unity (coincidence, identity, equal action) of opposites is conditional, temporary, transitory, relative. The struggle of mutually exclusive opposites is absolute, just as development and motion are absolute.”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“Sincere advice is not pleasant to hear but it is beneficial for one's conduct”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“military training is important, and without it we could not smash the enemy, but political work is also of importance for without it we would be defeated;”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“Contradiction38 exists universally and in all processes, whether in the simple or in the complex forms of motion, whether in objective phenomena or Ideological phenomena.”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“There is only one scientific truth, and that truth is dialectics.”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937

“If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it, and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no use.”
― Mao Zedong, Dialectical Materialism: Writings on Philosophy, 1937