Chinese Revolution Quotes:

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

- Leon Trotsky

source: Source: www.marxists.org

topic: Chinese Revolution, Europe, Victory

In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).

- Leon Trotsky

source: Source: www.marxists.org

topic: New York, Book, Chinese Revolution

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.118, China Books

topic: Chinese Revolution, People, History, World History

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

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

topic: War, Gun, Chinese Revolution

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Chinese Revolution, Arrows, Target

How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.156, Lulu.com

topic: Chinese Revolution, Expression, Practice, Marxism, Marxism Leninism

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Chinese Revolution, Foundation, Energy

After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Country, Chinese Revolution, Land

Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.

- Deng Xiaoping

source: Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

topic: Chinese Revolution, Practice, Ideas, Chairman Mao, Marxism Leninism

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

- Salvador Dali

topic: Chinese Revolution, Remember, Peasants

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

- Mao Zedong

topic: War, Politics, Bloodshed, Political Leaders, Chinese Revolution

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

topic: Change, Military, Learning, Pears, Knowledge And Learning

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

topic: Party, Writing, Dinner, Courteous, Insurrection

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books

topic: Love, Crush, Enemy, I Have A Crush, Chinese Revolution

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Military, Gun, Political, Military Power, Political Power

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

- Mao Zedong

source: Zedong Mao, Mao Tse-Tung (1965). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

topic: Party, Army, Gun, Chinese Revolution

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

- Mao Zedong

topic: Attitude, Teaching, Should, Chinese Revolution

Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

- Deng Xiaoping

source: Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

topic: Art, Philosophy, Military, Marxism, Literature And Art

To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous. This must be made clear now in the Party. The comrades must be helped to remain modest, prudent and free from arrogance and rashness in their style of work. The comrades must be helped to preserve the style of plain living and hard struggle.

- Mao Zedong

source: Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.101, Lulu.com

topic: Party, Struggle, Winning, Chinese Revolution, Rashness

Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

- David Rockefeller

source: James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.11, Open Road Media

topic: Successful, Community, Historical, Depopulation, Chinese Revolution

A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything.

- Malcolm X

source: "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

topic: Country, Men, Unique, Chinese Revolution, Cuban Revolution

Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?

- Eric A. Havelock

source: "Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet". Sino-Platonic Papers, Issue no. 5, sino-platonic.org. December 1987.

topic: Communication, Two, Differences, Chinese Revolution