Mao Zedong

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

To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth.

Communism is at once a complete system of proletarian ideology and a new social system. It is at once the world outlook of the proletariat and its immediate implementation.

The fundamental issue is one of the correct handling of contradictions among the people of our country.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

The contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation, and the contradiction between feudalism and the great masses of the people, are the principal contradictions in modern Chinese society.

Take care of the thousands of cadres who are the backbone of the revolution.

The era of the final struggle has arrived.

The Chinese people have stood up.

We think that bankruptcy is certain for the reactionary government of Chiang Kai-shek.

The people's state protects the people. Only when the people have such a state can they educate and remould themselves on a country-wide scale by democratic methods and, with everyone taking part, shake off the influence of domestic and foreign reactionaries.

Our state is a people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

You are dictatorial.

My dear Mr. President, the Chinese people have always been industrious, but they have been oppressed for a long time and have been very poor.

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science.

Books cannot walk and move around, but people can.

Marxism is not a dogma. When the basic principles of Marxism are applied to the concrete practice of a given country, there must be a careful and creative adaptation.

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universal truth.