Mao Tse-Tung Quotes (63 Quotes)

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

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.

Kunlun, you don't need all that height or snow. If I could lean on heaven, grab my sword, and cut you in three parts, I would send one to Europe, one to America, and keep one part here in China that the world have peace and the globe share the same heat and ice. October 1935

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

In the struggle to defend the legacy of Leninism ... Stalin proved himself to be an outstanding Marxist-Leninist fighter.... Stalin's works should, as before, be seriously studied ... to see what is correct and what is not.

Poem for Liu Ya-tzu Night is long. And slowly comes the crimson sun-moon dawn. Demons and monsters danced about and whirled for hundreds of years and five hundred millions were not a family. Yet in one song the cock whitens the world. Song pours on us from ten thousand corners and musicians from Khotan play. Never before were we poets so moved. October 1950

The guerilla campaigns being waged in China today are a page in history that has no precedent. Their influence will be confined not solely to China in her present anti-Japanese struggle, but will be world-wide.

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

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

Liupan the Mountain of Six Circles Dazzling sky to the far cirrus clouds. I gaze at wild geese vanishing into the south. If we cannot reach the Long Wall we are not true men. On my fingers I count the twenty thousand li we have already marched. On the summit of Liupan the west wind lazily ripples our red banner. Today we have the long rope in our hands. When will we tie up the gray dragon of the seven stars October 1935

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

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling. February 1936 or August 1945