Mao Zedong Quotes

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.

To read too many books is harmful.

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

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.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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

Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

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