Mao Zedong Quotes About Chinese Revolution
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Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
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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.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.
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Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
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After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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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.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Mao Zedong
- Born: December 26, 1893
- Died: September 9, 1976
- Occupation: Former Chairman of the Communist Party of China