Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers. Mao Zedong More Quotes by Mao Zedong More Quotes From Mao Zedong On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries. Mao Zedong stress struggle country The people are like water and the army is like fish. Mao Zedong army water people If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States. Mao Zedong fate war people In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage. Mao Zedong achievement struggle sight Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits. Mao Zedong war peace country 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 Zedong inspirational life thinking Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything. Mao Zedong army politics war Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist. Mao Zedong neutrality doe war Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine. Mao Zedong chinese medicine believe All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right. Mao Zedong chinese speak people Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. Mao Zedong glitter tongue legs We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war. Mao Zedong abolition want war The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy. Mao Zedong healthy party people On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning. Mao Zedong policy Women hold up half the sky. Mao Zedong half sky attitude Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling. Mao Zedong girl hero beautiful We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new. Mao Zedong building study world An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. Mao Zedong army military enemy 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. Mao Zedong powerful believe people We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports Mao Zedong support class enemy
