Mao Zedong Quotes

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When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

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People, Half, Enough

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All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

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Party, Gun, Political

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Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

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Benefits

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

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Love, Crush, Chinese Revolution

Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

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Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

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Heaven, Chaos, Excellent

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To read too many books is harmful.

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Book, Reading, Evil

Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

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People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

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Two, People, Legs

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The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

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Weed, Socialism, Crops

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People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

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Suicide, People, Trying

"Mao's Last Revolution". Book by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, 2006.

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Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.

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War, People, Chinese

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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

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Party, Writing, Chinese Revolution

Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

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The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.

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Thinking, People, Eras

Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.147, Lulu.com

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We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

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Class, Support, Enemy

Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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Love, Inspirational, Life

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When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

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Military, Enemy, Anarchy

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Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

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Gun, Government, Muzzle

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Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

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Views, Political, Soul

Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.142, China Books

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It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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Black

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We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

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Communication, Gun, Giving

Zedong Mao (1959). “On people's democratic dictatorship: written in commemoration of the 28th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party, July 1, 1949”

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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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Knowledge Experience, Pears, Genuine

1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul.

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That has less significance than a dog's fart.

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Dog, Fart, Significance

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The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

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Light, Government, Cities

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

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Chinese Revolution, People, History

Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.118, China Books

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We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

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Roots, People, Soil

Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.273, China Books

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To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

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Problem, Solve

Zedong Mao (1971). “Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu”

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Born: December 26, 1893
Died: September 9, 1976
Occupation: Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China
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