Mao Zedong Quotes


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. - Mao Zedong


You say, away with you Communists; we say, away with you imperialists. - Mao Zedong


Would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped. - Mao Zedong


Women hold up half the sky. - Mao Zedong


What we have in excess is women. So if you want, we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burden. - Mao Zedong


Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people. - Mao Zedong


We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. - Mao Zedong


We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. - Mao Zedong


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


To read too many books is harmful. - Mao Zedong


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