Mao Zedong Military Quotes

Quotes about: Military

• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Gun, Chinese Revolution

  Speech at sixth plenary session of Central Committee, Communist Party, Yan'an, China, 6 Nov. 1938

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

  Mao Zedong

  Military, War, Men

  Zedong Mao (1954). “Selected Works”

• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Change, Military, Learning

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

• 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

• Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Sacrifice, Winning

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.182, China Books

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

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Moving, Sea

• 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

• The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, People, Economic

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

• There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Simple, Goal

  "On Guerrilla Warfare".

• The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Army, Discipline

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