Mao Zedong Quotes

• There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

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• The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

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• Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

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• Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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• People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

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• Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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• Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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• 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.

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• In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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

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• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

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• I voted for you during your last election.

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• Genuine equality between the s*xes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

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

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• Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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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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