Words matter. These are the best Mao Zedong Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Women hold up half the sky.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
To read too many books is harmful.
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.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
