Mao Zedong quotes - page 3

In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class. (Mao Zedong)
Qualitatively different contradictions can only be resolved by qualitatively different methods. View quote
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The food of the true revolutionary is the red pepper, And he who cannot endure red peppers is also unable to fight. View quote
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The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them. View quote
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The fact is that no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation. Without its opposite aspect, each loses the condition for its existence. View quote
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Where there is oppression, there is revolt. View quote
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It is absolutely necessary for educated young people to go to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor and lower-middle peasants. Cadres and other city people should be persuaded to send their sons and daughters who have finished junior or senior middle school, college, or university to the countryside. Let us mobilize. Comrades throughout the countryside should welcome them. View quote
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The revolutionary red guards and revolutionary student organizations must form a grand alliance. As long as they are revolutionary mass organizations, they must form a great alliance according to revolutionary principles. View quote
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Democracy sometimes looks like an end in itself, but in fact it is merely a means to an end. View quote
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The peoples of the world must have courage, dare to fight, and fear no hardships. When the ones in front fall, the others behind must follow up. In this way, the world will belong to the people and all the demons will be eliminated. View quote
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The basic contradiction the great proletarian Cultural Revolution is trying to resolve is the one between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, between the proletarian and bourgeois roads. The main point of the movement is to struggle against the capitalist roaders in authority in the party. (Mao Zedong)
Young people should be permitted to make mistakes. As long as their general orientation is correct, let them make minor mistakes. I believe that they can correct themselves in practical work. View quote
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This is a movement on a vast scale. It has indeed mobilized the masses. It is of very great significance to the revolutionization of the thinking of the people throughout the country. View quote
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Wind will not cease even if trees want to rest. View quote
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It is to the advantage of despots to keep people ignorant; it is to our advantage to make them intelligent. We must lead all of them gradually away from ignorance. View quote
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We, the communists, do not want official positions; we want revolution. We must have a thoroughly revolutionary spirit and must be with the masses every hour, every minute. As long as we are with the masses, we shall always be victorious. View quote
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Do not stop half way and do not ever go backward. There is no way behind you. View quote
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Guard against revisionism, particularly the emergence of revisionism at the party Centre. View quote
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The victory or defeat of the revolution can be determined only over a long period of time. If it is badly handled, there is always the danger of a capitalist restoration. All members of the party and all the people of our country must not think that after one, two, three, or four great cultural revolutions there will be peace and quiet. They must always be on the alert and must never relax their vigilance. View quote
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It is difficult to avoid mistakes, the point is to correct them honestly. Too many people have been arrested in Szechwan and many mass organizations are branded as reactionary. All these are wrong, but they have been quickly rectified. View quote
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In the ideological field, the question of who will win in the struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie has not been really settled yet. We still have to wage a protracted struggle against bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology. It is wrong not to understand this and to give up ideological struggle. All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked. However, the criticism should be fully reasoned, analytical and convincing, and not rough, bureaucratic, metaphysical or dogmatic. (Mao Zedong)
Can a Communist, who is an internationalist, at the same time be a patriot? We hold that he not only can be but must be. View quote
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It is only firmly maintaining the national united front that the difficulties can be overcome, the enemy defeated, and a new China built. This is beyond all doubt. At the same time, every party and group in the united front must preserve its ideological, political and organizational independence; this holds good for the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, or any other party or group. View quote
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All loyal, honest, active and upright Communists must unite to oppose the liberal tendencies shown by certain people among us, and set them on the right path. This is one of the tasks on our ideological front. View quote
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Children are the masters of the new society. View quote
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