Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) (Chairman Mao), (1893 - 1976) Quotes

So long as a person who has made mistakes... Honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be "to be satiable in learning" and towards others "to be tireless in teaching.

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun..

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Winter clouds. Cotton snow falls heavily like many disappearing flowers. Icy brooks bubble high in the air and on earth a slender wind is warm.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h.