Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

— Mao Zedong

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

— Mao Zedong

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

— Mao Zedong

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

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

— Mao Zedong

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

— Mao Zedong

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

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.

— Mao Zedong