Mao Zedong Quotes

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

The passing of state power from one class to another is the first, the principal, the basic sign of a revolution, both in the strictly scientific and in the practical political meaning of that term.

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

Revolutions do not always establish freedom.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

Revolution is a transfer of property from class to class.

Grasp Revolution

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

The revolution will stop at nothing. We have changed the nature of politics.

it is not the topping of a regime that determines the overall success of a revolution -- it's dismantling the past in favor of a better future.

Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.

For years I looked at the Iranians with envy - not at the outcome of their 1979 revolution, but because it was a popular uprising, not a euphemism for a coup.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

I was born in revolution.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.