Mao Tse-Tung
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
Mao Tse-Tung
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse-Tung
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Tse-Tung
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung
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.
Mao Tse-Tung
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung
Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Tse-Tung
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing
embroidery.
Mao Tse-Tung
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Tse-Tung
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Tse-Tung
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Tse-Tung
I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Tse-Tung
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Tse-Tung
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Mao Tse-Tung
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Tse-Tung
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Mao Tse-Tung
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-Tung
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Tse-Tung
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Mao Tse-Tung
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Tse-Tung
