Mao Zedong War Quotes

#1. Whoever has an army has power, and war decides everything.

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#2. Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die ... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history ... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third ...

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#3. History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

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#4. Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

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#5. As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.

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#6. As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

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#7. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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#8. A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is ... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage ... [Conversely, tactical plans may] ... have to be changed several times a day.

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#9. Unquestionably, victory or defeat in war is determined mainly by the military, political, economic and natural conditions on both sides. But not by these alone. It is also determined by each side's subjective ability in directing the war.

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#10. War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

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#11. History is a symptom of our disease

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#12. People are essentially losing their temper for things that have nothing to do with the act of driving.

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#13. All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

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#14. War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.

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#15. The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

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#16. You have to do to be.

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#17. The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

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

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#19. Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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#20. Dalai Lama was leading his country during the rigors of World War II, he was in Beijing for a year in 1954; he was up against Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai from the time that he was fifteen. So he's no newcomer or naive when it comes to politics.

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#21. Not just in China, but everywhere in the world without exception, one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is mere camouflage; a third road does not exist.

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#22. The commanders and fighters of the entire Chinese People's Liberation Army absolutely must not relax in the least their will to fight; any thinking that relaxes the will to fight and belittles the enemy is wrong.

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#23. The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

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#24. Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

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#25. As painful as it can be, we must reinterpret our experiences through the Word of God, rather than let our experiences dictate what the Bible can and cannot mean.

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#26. The main form of struggle is war; the main form of organization is the army ... Without armed struggle there would be no place for the proletariat, there will be no place for the people, there will be no place for the Communist Party, and there will be no victory in revolution.

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#27. In every success there's a failure

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#28. The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

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#29. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

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#30. Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

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#31. Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

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