Mao Zedong Quotes & Sayings

“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”

“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 genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

“Women hold up half the sky.”

“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“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.”

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

“The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.”

“War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

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