Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. – Mao Zedong
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. – Mao Zedong
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. – Mao Zedong
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong
We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. – Mao Zedong
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. – Mao Zedong
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. – Mao Zedong
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. – Mao Zedong