- We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks
the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an
entirely different view.
~Mao Zedong
- Who are our enemies? Who ae our friends? This is
a question of the first importance for the revolution.
~Mao Zedong
- Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the
enemy.
~Mao Zedong
- 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.
~Mao Zedong
- In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
~Mao Zedong
- Political power grows out of the barrel of a 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
- This is usually aphorized as "The people are the sea that the
revolutionary swims in," or an equivalent.
~Mao Zedong
- Politics
is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
~Mao Zedong
- One
cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party
cannot be educated without learning from mistakes.
~Mao Zedong
