Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as an autocrat styled the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionLeader
Date of Birth26 December 1893
CountryChina
An army of the people is invincible!
We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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.
Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.