Mao Zedong Famous Quotes
"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."
I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon)
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly."
"Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)"
"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible."
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Communist Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party."
Mao Zedong Quotations
"Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen."
Richard Rosen
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay."
Brian Aldiss
"My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat."
Henny Youngman
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it.
John Dean
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song."
Will Durant
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
Oscar Wilde
"When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything."
Shunryu Suzuki
"Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them."
Shakti Gawain
"Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever."
Alfred Lord Tennyson