Mao Zedong

We must have a correct attitude towards nature, and not regard it as something to be conquered absolutely.

The people, only the people, are the creative force of historical development.

In the past, we fought the enemy while marching, and we were victorious; now we must work while marching, and we must also be victorious.

The socialist revolution is the biggest and most profound revolution in the history of mankind.

We must learn to do economic work. Everything calls for experience and experiment.

The contradiction between the enemy and ourselves is one of life and death.

To link the leadership to the masses and the masses to the leadership, that is our task.

The cadres must be one with the masses.

The people are the sea, and we are the fish.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Through struggle, through study, we can acquire political quality.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is the people's world.

Who are we? We are the people who own China.

The state must supervise the market.

We must give democratic rights to the peasants so that they can take part in the management of the state.

The road ahead is long and has many windings and turnings, but we will make it.

I am a single spark, but the revolution is a prairie fire.

The Long March is the first of its kind in the annals of history, a manifesto of the Chinese Revolution.

On this earth, there is no place for the landlord class to stay.