Mao Zedong

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

History is a symptom of our disease

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.

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

An army of the people is invincible!

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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.

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.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a 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.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.