Quotations From Chairman Mao – Mao Zedong Sayings

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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.”
– Chairman Mao

“History is a symptom of our disease”
– Chairman Mao

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. To interpret history from this viewpoint is historical materialism; standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism.”
– Chairman Mao

“In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.”
– Chairman Mao

“Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetus for the supersession of the old society by the new.”
– Chairman Mao

“The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…. It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.”
– Chairman Mao

“In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle.”
– Chairman Mao

“Among the whites in the United States it is only the reactionary ruling circles who oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.”
– Chairman Mao

“It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them.”
– Chairman Mao

“Everything reactionary is the same; if you don’t hit it, it wont fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.”
– Chairman Mao

“The enemy will not perish of himself.”
– Chairman Mao

“Neither the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China will step down from the stage of history of their own accord.”
– Chairman Mao

“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.”
– Chairman Mao

“A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
– Chairman Mao

“Chiang Kai-shek always tries to wrest every ounce of power and every ounce of gain from the people. And we? Our policy is to give him tit for tat and to fight for every inch of land. We act after his fashion. He always tries to impose war on the people, one sword in his left hand and another in his right. We take up swords, too, following his example…. As Chiang Kai-shek is now sharpening his swords, we must sharpen ours too.”
– Chairman Mao

“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.”
– Chairman Mao

“The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little was their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies.”
– Chairman Mao

“A revolutionary party is the guide of the masses, and no revolution ever succeeds when the revolutionary party leads them astray.”
– Chairman Mao

“To ensure that we will definitely achieve success in our revolution and will not lead the masses astray, we must pay attention to uniting with our real friends in order to attack our real enemies.”
– Chairman Mao

“To distinguish real friends from real enemies, we must make a general analysis of the economic status of the various classes in Chinese society and of their respective attitudes towards the revolution.”
– Chairman Mao

“Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism – the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them.”
– Chairman Mao

“The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat.”
– Chairman Mao

“Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie.”
– Chairman Mao

“As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right-wing may become our enemy and their left-wing may become our friend – but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.”
– Chairman Mao

“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary.”
– Chairman Mao

“Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary.”
– Chairman Mao

“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech.”
– Chairman Mao

“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”
– Chairman Mao

“I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy.”
– Chairman Mao

“It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.”
– Chairman Mao

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