A biography for Mao Zedonghasn’t been written yet.
“אנו זקוקים לרוח של התלהבות תוך שמירה על קור רוח.”
“העמדות שלנו כלפי דברים קשורים למקום בו אנו נמצאים.”
“אויב הלימוד היא שביעות רצון עצמית.”
“חפשו את האמת בעובדות.”
“כשהאויב נסוג, אנו מציקים לו.”
“הכוח נמצא בקנה הרובה.”
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
“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.”
“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”
“To read too many books is harmful.”
“Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.”
“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.”
“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”
“I voted for you during your last election.”
“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.”
“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”
“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”