Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
– Mao Tse-Tung
I voted for you during your last election.
– Mao Tse-Tung
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
– Mao Tse-Tung
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own.
– Mao Tse-Tung
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.
– Mao Tse-Tung
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
– Mao Tse-Tung
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
– Mao Tse-Tung
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
– Mao Tse-Tung
Be resolute, fear no sacifice, and surmount every difficultyto win victory.
– Mao Tse-Tung
We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.