Mao Zedong Quotes

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

The quest for some unmistakable proof of superior status and identity replaces the ideal of success for many .... the history of modernization is largely one of carnage and bedlam rather than peaceful convergence.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for suppressing another.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

An issue between a people and a class

One of the most constant laws of history is … immediately [if] any one class becomes preponderant—nobles, clergy, army, or the people—it speedily tends to enslave others.

The historical method is often deemed conservative, because it traces the gradual and stately growth of our venerable institutions; but it may exercise a precisely opposite influence by showing the gross injustice which was blindly perpetrated during this growth. The historical method is supposed to prove that economic changes have been the inevitable outcome of natural laws. It just as often proves them to have been brought about by the self-seeking action of dominant classes.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

…in every city are found two diverse humors, and this arises from the fact that the common people desire neither to be commanded nor oppressed by the great, and the powerful men desire to command and oppress the people..

As opposed to this two-stage transformation-slave to feudal and feudal to capitalist-in Europe, India remained tied to the same old order under which the overwhelming majority of the people belonged to the oppressed and backward castes.

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