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.
Mao Tse-Tung

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Tse-Tung

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Tse-Tung

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Tse-Tung

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 Tse-Tung

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Tse-Tung

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Tse-Tung