Mao Zedong Quotes

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

You can have the power to destroy, but it doesn't give you the power to reform, or improve, or build.

We've taken a show about destruction and turned it into a show about construction.

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

We are out to rebuild the world.

Nothing is the force that renovates the World.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

There must be a new world if there is to be any world at all!... These days of universal death must be days of universal new birth, if the ruin is not to be total and final! It is Time to make the dullest man consider; and ask himself, Whence he came? Whither he is bound?

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

The last thing we want is to remain as we are.

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

I think by shattering it we can create a new form, a new way to look at what is valuable — how we decide what is valuable.

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

You cannot have growth without change.

There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.