Mao Tse-tung Quotes

#1. When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger.

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#2. It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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#3. Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

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#4. The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

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#5. You can't be a revolutionary if you don't eat chilies.

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

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#7. Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

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#8. Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun ...

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#9. The evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.

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#10. Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

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#11. Make criticism in good time; don't get into the habit of criticizing only after the event.

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#12. 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.

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#13. Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.

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#14. Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish

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#15. A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

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#16. If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

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#17. Historical experience is written in iron and blood.

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#18. I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.

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