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“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Party #Gun #Political
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Military #Gun #Political
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Military #War #Men
“Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Friends #Enemy #Firsts
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Military #Army #Navy
“Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Mistake #People #Truth Is
“Learn from the masses, and then teach them.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Inspirational #Mass #Teach
“We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.”
-- Mao Zedong

#World #Study #Building
“To read too many books is harmful.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Book #Evil
“In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Hard Work #Adversity #Sight
“...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Evil #People #Black
“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution. It is not just a matter of understanding the general laws derived by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin from their extensive study of real life and revolutionary experience, but of studying their standpoint and method in examining and solving problems.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Real #Law #Understanding
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Party #Writing #Dinner
“The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. 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...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Morning #Eight #People
“A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Party #Class #Dinner
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Long #Wake Up #Use
“Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Struggle #Class #People
“I voted for you during your last election.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Lasts #Election
“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. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Party #Writing #Class
“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 #Responsibility #Work Out
“No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Party #Profound #Political
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Love #Crush #Enemy
“All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”
-- Mao Zedong

#Chinese #World #Electricity
“In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.”
-- Mao Zedong
“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 Zedong

#Inspirational #Life #Thinking
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
-- Mao Zedong

#War #Politics #Bloodshed
“The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Real #Hero #Understanding
“Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Attitude #Teaching #Should
“Civilize the mind but make savage the body.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Warrior #Mind #Savages
“Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.”
-- Mao Zedong

#Sacrifice #Winning #Self

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