Mao Zedong1893–1976The quotations of
Mao Zedong
1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China
1893–1976
8 quotes, most often on Politics, War & Peace and Power.
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 5, originally published in Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.- “在延安各界庆祝斯大林六十寿辰大会上的讲话” (“Speech marking the 60th birthday of Stalin”) (20 December 1939), later revised as “It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 9, originally published in the Problems of War and Strategy (November 6, 1938), Selected Works, Vol. II, p. 224.
A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book), Chapter 2, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.- On the Question of Agricultural Co-Operation (July 31, 1955)





