Mao Zedong

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.”

“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 genui...”

“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”

“Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.”

“Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.”

“Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.”

“Women hold up half the sky.”

“Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.”

“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.”

“Learn from the masses, and then teach them.”

“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”

“There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.”

“Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.”

“The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.”

“Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.”

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

“All reactionaries are paper tigers.”

“I voted for you during your last election.”