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Mao Zedong [1893-1976] Chinese

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems), Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as an autocrat styled the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976.

Work, History, Politics, War, Alone, Art, Change, Equality, Experience, Friendship, Knowledge, Leadership, Love, Nature, Power, Society, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.	Love	101
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.		102
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.	History	103
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.		104
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.	Change, Experience, Knowledge	105
Women hold up half the sky.	Women	106
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.	Power	107
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.	Leadership, Work	108
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.	Nature	109
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.		110
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.		111
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.		112
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.	Art, Politics	113
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.		114
To read too many books is harmful.		115
Let a hundred flowers bloom.		116
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.	Politics, War	117
I voted for you during your last election.		118
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.	Alone, History	119
Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.	Work	120
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.		121
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.	Friendship	122
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.	Work	123
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.		124
All reactionaries are paper tigers.		125
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.		126
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.	War	201
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.		202
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.		203
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.	Equality, Society	204
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.		205
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.		206
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.		207
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.		208
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.		209
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.		210
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.		211
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.		212
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.		213

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