Mao Zedong Quotes

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

War kills reform.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

Revolutions rarely end up as positively as they begin.

Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision.

Wars are not all evil, they are part of the grand machinery by which this world is governed.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

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

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I fought for peace in the fifties.