Mao Zedong Quotes

• Morality begins at the point of a gun.

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• The more books one reads, the more stupid one becomes.

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• Water too pure breeds no fish.

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• I have seen Lenin’s manuscripts, which are filled with changes. He too made mistakes.

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• All the so-called powerful reactionaries are paper tigers, for they are cut off from their people. Was not Hitler a paper tiger, and was he not overthrown? US imperialism has not yet been overthrown, and it has atomic bombs—but I believe that it too will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

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• People of the world, unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs.

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• The east wind prevails over the west wind.

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• If the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died, the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world could become socialist.

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• When a man reaches old age, he will die and the same is true of a party.

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• China has stood up.

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• Every Communist must grasp the truth that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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• Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must taste the pear by eating it for 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.

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• A single spark can start a forest fire. Our forces, although small at present, will grow rapidly.

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• A revolution is not a dinner party.

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• But just think how good communism is! The state won’t bother us anymore.

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• History is a symptom of our disease.

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• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

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• Women hold up half the sky.

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

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Mao Zedong (57)

Birth:	26th December, 1893
Death:	9th September, 1976
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Librarian, Politician

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Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought.

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