Mao Zedong

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that count.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy

Complacency is the enemy of study.

Ours is a peoples democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker peasant alliance.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

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

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

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

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.

Its always darkest before it becomes totally black.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

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.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

To read too many books is harmful.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

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

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Let a hundred flowers bloom let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Disaster and chaos are always good.