An army of the people is invincible!

— Mao Zedong

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.

— Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

— Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labor front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

— Mao Zedong

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

— Mao Zedong

History is a symptom of our disease

— Mao Zedong

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

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

— Mao Zedong

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

— Mao Zedong