Quotes from zedong mao

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

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

Complacency is the enemy of study.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

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

In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.

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

Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfill the appointed tasks, and only far-sightedness can prevent them from losing their bearings in the march forward.

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.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

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.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

It is quite possible that China may reach the stages of socialism and communism considerably later than your countries in the West which are so much more highly developed economically.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.