Quotes from Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.

The guerilla must live amongst the people as the fish lives in the water.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.

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

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

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

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture…. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

The revolution is not a tea party.

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Women hold up half the sky.