Mao Tse-Tung Quotes

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
 
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
 
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
 
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
 
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
 
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

I voted for you during your last election.
 
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
 
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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.
 
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
 
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

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

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

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.

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.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

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.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Women hold up half the sky.