The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. -Mao Zedong Alone
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts. -Mao Zedong War
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. -Mao Zedong History
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. -Mao Zedong Politics
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. -Mao Zedong Society
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. -Mao Zedong Change
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. -Mao Zedong Art
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. -Mao Zedong Knowledge
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. -Mao Zedong Equality
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. -Mao Zedong War
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. -Mao Zedong Leadership
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. -Mao Zedong Work
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history. -Mao Zedong History
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. -Mao Zedong Art
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. -Mao Zedong Work
