Mao Zedong Quotes

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong

Friendship, Friends, Cannot

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.
Mao Zedong

Politics, Art, Whole

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Fighting, Dead, Shall

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

War, Important, Weapons

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong

Equality, Society, Between

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Zedong

Long, Tiger, Stick

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
Mao Zedong

Learn, Teach, Masses

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Zedong

Nature, Thought, Flowers

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 Zedong

Fact, United, Looks

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 Zedong

Leadership, Work, Point

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

History, Struggle, Others

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Zedong

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Mao Zedong

Work, Political, Economic

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Zedong

Weak, Head, Tongue

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

Serious, Capitalism, Among

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Biography

Nationality: Chinese

Type: Leader

Born: December 26, 1893

Died: September 9, 1976

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