Mao Zedong quotes

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. " # Politicians and Politics

" Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals) " # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Education # Death and Dying

" Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. " # Love # Enemies # Communism and Socialism

" Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. " # Power

" Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. " # Goals

" 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. " # Revolutions and Revolutionaries # Rebellion # Leisure

" Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. " # Uncategorised # Communism and Socialism # Politicians and Politics

" To read too many books is harmful. " # Books - Reading

" I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon) " # Loneliness # President # Elections

" All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger. " # Reactionaries # Divorce # Nuclear Age