An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
– Mao Zedong
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
– Mao Zedong
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
– Mao Zedong
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
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
– Mao Zedong
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
– Mao Zedong
Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.
– Mao Zedong
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
– Mao Zedong
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's 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.
– Mao Zedong
To read too many books is harmful.
– 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.
– Mao Zedong
Women hold up half the sky.
– Mao Zedong
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one it is man and not materials that counts.
– Mao Zedong
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
– Mao Zedong
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.