Mao Zedong Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

  Mao Zedong

  Friends, Enemy, Firsts

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Crush, Chinese Revolution

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

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

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Enemy

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books

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

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Enemy, Anarchy

• Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Wings

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works".

• To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Good Things, Bad Things

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.15, China Books

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

  Mao Zedong

  Class, Support, Enemy

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

• Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Complacency, Study

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.539, Routledge

• Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Hammers, Use

• The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Chinese

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

• After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns; they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Struggle, Gun

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.15, Lulu.com

• Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River. The peak is a coiled dragon, the city a crouching tiger more dazzling than before. The sky is spinning and the earth upside down. We are elated yet we must use our courage to chase the hopeless enemy. We must not stoop to fame like the overlord Hsiang Yu. If heaven has feeling it will grow old and watch our seas turn into mulberry fields.

  Mao Zedong

  Courage, Rain, Yellow

• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, War, Enemy

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.336, Routledge

• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Japan

• The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Army

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

• The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Retreat, Tire

  Letter, 5 Jan. 1930.

• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  Mao Zedong

  Passivity Is, Goal, Enemy

• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

• What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Weather, People

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

• Despise Your enemy stragetically, but take him seriously tactically

  Mao Zedong

  History, Historical, Enemy

• When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Stronger, Strategy

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

• The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Law, Enemy

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.20, University of Illinois Press

• Complacency is the enemy of study.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Complacency, Study

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

• The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

  Mao Zedong

  Sight, Giving, Soldier

• Many people think it impossible for guerrillas to exist for long in the enemy's rear. Such a belief reveals lack of comprehension of the relationship that should exist between the people
  and the troops. The former may be likened to water the latter to the fish who inhabit it. How may it be said that these two cannot exist together?

  Mao Zedong

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Zedong Mao (1900). “Mao on Revolutionary War”

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