Mao Zedong Quotes

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

I'm not a communist, but I'm not anti-communist either. I'm not afraid of communists, and declare that if a country wants to be communist, it has the right to be so.

Violence is a holy and historically progressive force.

The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias.

I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could... That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute, but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up the harsh title of Master for the more tender and endearing one of Friend.

The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

Communism is nonsense.

Russia will preserve itself as a unitary state by all means. This will take place either through the civilized constitutional process or through crude force, arbitrary rule and dictatorship.