Mao Zedong pronunciation
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“He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man!”
Contributed by: Louis Han
Mao Zedong
“枪杆子里出政权power comes from guns!”
“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”
“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.”
“All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.”
“Let a hundred flowers bloom.”
“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.”
“To read too many books is harmful.”
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”
“What we have in excess is women. So if you want, we can give a few of those to you, some tens of thousands. Let them go to your place. They will create disasters. That way you can lessen our burden.”