Mao Zedong Quotes

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas of leadership-such is the basic method of leadership.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don’t take Chinese medicine.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan’an… But it does not necessarily follow that… they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must unite with the masses, the more of the masses we unite with, the better

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.