Mao Zedong Quotes

The word 'revolution' is a word for which you kill, for which you die, for which you send the labouring masses to their deaths; but which does not contain any content.

Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

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

Nothing changes without blood flowing.

Revolution against imperialism is not an action of inviting guests to have meal, writing articles, braiding, education, softness or fear of enemy. But it is a class wrath seized to topple another class

A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

The pogroms are oil for the wheels of revolution.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

We find—in the case of political affairs—that the most servile submission to privileged classes, and the grossest abuses of power by these, have been the precursors of the wildest ebullitions of popular fury,—of the overthrow indiscriminately of ancient institutions, good and bad.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

It's not a revolution if nobody loses