Mao Zedong

Leader

1893-12-26 – 1976-09-09

Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader who founded the Peoples Republic of China in 1949. He led the Chinese Communist Party for decades and remains one of the most consequential figures in modern Chinese history.

Books by Mao Zedong

Mao Tŝe-tung's quotations
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Illustrated poems of Mao Zedong =
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On guerilla warfare
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Quotes by Mao Zedong

History is a symptom of our disease
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Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
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...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.
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An army of the people is invincible!
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Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.
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An army of the people is invincible!
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History is a symptom of our disease
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...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.
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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.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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