Quotes by Mao Zedong

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

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

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

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.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

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

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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.

There is in fact no such thing as art for arts sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.