Quotes by
Mao Zedong |
1893-1976 , Chinese leader
He founded the People's Republic of China and led the country from the start in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao also served as the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from 1943. His political theories, which he advocated as a Chinese adaptation of Marxism–Leninism, are known as Maoism.
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Quotations
| • | Learn from the masses, and then teach them. 3 |
| • | Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. 2 |
| • | Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. 2 |
| • | Women hold up half the sky. 2 |
| • | Everything is in utter chaos; this is an excellent situation. 2 |
| • | Our ancestors were wise. They discovered printing, but they didn't publish newspapers. They discovered gunpowder, but they only used it for fireworks. They discovered the compass, but they avoided using it to discover America. 2 |
| • | Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. 1 |
| • | The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the U.S. reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't. 1 |
| • | Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel. 1 |
| • | The cultural revolution must be repeated every 7–8 years. |
