Quotes by Zedong, Mao

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; i >>

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The >>

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands >>

Quotations about Masses

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you ar >>

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man >>

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight >>

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

Zedong, Mao