Mao Zedong Quotes

Mao Zedong was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China. He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party during that time.

Mao Zedong Quotes

1. “Women hold up half the sky.”
— Mao Zedong

2. “Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.”
— Mao Zedong

3. “Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel.”
— Mao Zedong

4. “Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible.”
— Mao Zedong

5. “To read too many books is harmful.”
— Mao Zedong

6. “A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
— Mao Zedong

7. “The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invinsible…”
— Mao Zedong

8. “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

9. “The whole world is very bright. The darker the clouds, the greater the light.”
— Mao Zedong

10. “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”
— Mao Zedong

11. “The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.”
— Mao Zedong

12. “An army of the people is invincible!”
— Mao Zedong

13. “Our attitude towards ourselves should be ‘to be satiable in learning’ and towards others ’to be tireless in teaching.”
— Mao Zedong

14. “We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.”
— Mao Zedong

15. “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
— Mao Zedong

16. “The most ridiculous person in the world is the “knowall” who picks up a smattering of hearsay knowledge and proclaims himself “the world’s Number One authority”;.”
— Mao Zedong

17. “Stalin has well said, “Theory which departs from practice is empty theory, practice which departs from theory gropes in the dark”.”
— Mao Zedong

18. “We are not utopians and cannot divorce ourselves from the actual conditions confronting us.”
— Mao Zedong