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Mao Zedong[a] (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.

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We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

Communication, Engels, Giving, Gun, Indebted, Stalin

Long distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Distance, Long, Perseverance, Running, Training

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

Heaven, Chaos, Excellent, Under, Situation

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Death, Eat, Enough, Half, Let, People

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

Chickens, Eggs, Stones, Suitable, Temperature

It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.

Dust, Fall, Hit, Rule, Struggle

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Alone, Chinese Revolution, History, Motive, People

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

Autumn, Economic, Esteem, Matter, Pretend, Teacher

Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains. " Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.

Fall, Kingdom, Ocean, Pages, Rain, Whip

A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

Doe, Enemy, Lines, Possessed, Wanders

Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

Book, Books, Cocky, Majority, Thinking, Use

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.

Changed, May, Moving, Several, War

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

Movement, Party, Political, Profound

Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people in words only but acts otherwise is a revolutionary in speech. Whoever sides with the revolutionary people in deed as well as in word is a revolutionary in the full sense.

Class, People, Sense, Struggle, Word, Words

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Against, Reactionaries, Rebel, Right

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

Communism, Doubt, Future, Names, Party, Views

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

Achievement, Courage, Difficulty, Sight, Struggle, Times

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Confine, Fighting, Oneself, Should, Weapons

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.

Army, Entire, Fighting, Peace, Relaxes, War

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.

Art, Cause, Class, Fact, Independent, Sake

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