Mao Zedong Quotes

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

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

Our attitude towards ourselves should be "to be satiable in learning" and towards others "to be tireless in teaching."

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.