Mao believed in Communist ideology. He was a Chinese communist revolutionary. He was the leader of the communist party of china. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism. Born on December 26th, Mao was the son of a poor peasant in Shaoshan. Mao often observed injustice done to him and his family due to their peasant background. Mao's mother was Buddhist, and she taught him Buddhist teachings but very early in his he decided to give up Buddhist teachings. At this time, Mao was a voracious reader and developed political acumen.
A cold-hearted tyrant, it is estimated that under the reign of Mao, 45 million people died. He executed mass murders. His great leap forward was an absolutely banal strategy. In fact, it is not wrong to say that Mao was one of the greatest mass murderers in history. His quotations are noted in a book famously known as little red book, a name that came from the size and shape of the book. His entire philosophy is jotted down in this book. There was a time in China where this book was essential for every Chinese man to carry. And in this way, Mao tried to establish his ideology in the country.
China became Communist under the reign of Mao. Below are some of the famous Mao Zedong Quotes.
To read too many books is harmful.
Tyrants are people who would prevent people from getting educated cause education is a thing that gives a person power. Mao didn't want the people to get educated and crush his reign with their knowledge. So he distracted people from education and books.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Communism is an idea of Karl Marx. He believed that the bourgeoise would rise after the atrocities they had to face every day. Though Communism supported the rights of the people, it is used wrongly by fascists. Here Mao does not want to spread love via Communism; he would rather crush his enemies with it.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Politics is the science to govern the people. Though it ideally should be peaceful, politics is rarely peaceful. At gunpoint, the people at governed by people like Mao and ideas like this he promotes.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Politics is the tactics used by people for power. Though ethically wrong, people in politics often do things out of the law cunningly to gain power. Mao says that that politics and war are quite interconnected. Politics is a war done without bloodshed, and vice versa is also true!
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
When we are in a war, we are in a conflict with the enemy. Of course, we hate our enemy, but by letting our hate get the best of us, we are distracted by our goal of winning the war. We must take the enemy seriously and take each step carefully by studying the opponents good and weak strategies.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Extremists are of the belief that one violence can end violence. And thinking from their perspective, the statement does hold truth. No one wants a war, but during a war, only ones victory and others defeat would end the war. Only lost lives would end the war.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
There is a ton of unwritten history on the face of the earth, Tons of mysteries and stories of valour no one will ever know about. There are various classes of people. Amongst them, the weak ones are eliminated, and likewise, the history of the world is shaped with the elimination of weak ones.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Capitalism and Communism are opposite concepts; Capitalism offers money of the middle-class people in the hands of a few rich while Communism gives the right to common people to earn their part.
In class society, everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class.
In a society where people are differentiated by class every way of thinking and living is titled and jotted down under a category. There is a class for every kind of person but this kind of thinking is morally wrong it breaks the unity of the masses.
People who try to commit suicide – don't attempt to save them!... China is a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
One of the harshest statement made by Mao. Here he states that China is a populated country, which is true. And to let die people who are suicidal is a solution Mao gives, which is absolutely inhuman.
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The people and the people alone are the motive force in the making of history.
Communism believes in the power in the hands of people. Though leaders and politicians are in the spotlight, they are influenced by people's wants and needs. Together and united masses can do anything they want. But their mind should have likewise thinking.
When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.
An absolute inhuman philosophy, Mao thinks that for people to fill their stomachs, the other half must stay hungry and even die of starvation. This philosophy reflects how heartless Mao was towards the people of his own country.
In waking a tiger use a long stick.
Metaphorically tiger means a dangerous thing in this quote. And long stick represents long distance. So to deal with anything dangerous we must deal with it from a distance!
Let the people speak up. If they have good arguments we speak to them; if they don't we refute them.
Mao developed an image of a good leader in front of the people. And that is why some Chinese people still respect him and his philosophy. He pretended to hear people's opinions and agree or disagree to them. But in real life, any opinion which was a threat to him was kept shut. The man who gave such an opinion was killed.
Deaths have benefits they can fertilize the ground.
The most bitter statement a man can utter. During wars, when people lose lives, it is a big loss for the families of those people and for the nation. But Mao thinks that there is a benefit to death. Death fertilizes the land!
Women hold up half the sky.
Communism believes in the equality of sexes. It does not believe in chauvinist philosophy at all. This quote means that women belong to this world as much as men do. They have equal rights to do whatever they want.
Some long Mao Zedong Quotes...
If a man wants to succeed in his work, that is, to achieve the anticipated results, he must bring his ideas into correspondence with the laws of the objective external world; if they do not correspond, he will fail in his practice. After he fails, he draws his lessons, corrects his ideas to make them correspond to the laws of the external world, and can thus turn failure into success; this is what is meant by "failure is the mother of success" and "a fall into the pit, a gain in your wit".
Any man can build a cloud cuckoo for himself, but making his dreams come alive is a challenge. People often dream too big, but then reality struck them, and reality is often very dark. Man, after this incidence, realizes that his dreams must be woven in a realistic way, and thus he turns his defeat story into a success story.
Whoever wants to know a thing has no way of doing so except by coming into contact with it, that is, by living (practicing) in its environment. ... If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Experiences is what gives us true knowledge of a subject. No matter how much a person knows about a subject in theory, without experience, he does not know the subject truly. Experiences are what gives us a reality check on our subject. So we must always be keen to gain new experience.
Only those who are subjective, one-sided and superficial in their approach to problems will smugly issue orders or directives the moment they arrive on the scene, without considering the circumstances, without viewing things in their totality (their history and their present state as a whole) and without getting to the essence of things (their nature and the internal relations between one thing and another). Such people are bound to trip and fall.
It is true that having half knowledge is dangerous. Having complete information and wisdom about what a person is doing is beneficial, but knowing things halfway, knowing how to start things and not how to end them is literally dangerous. When we attempt to do things with hollow knowledge, that itself leads to failure and defeat.
Knowledge begins with practice, and theoretical knowledge, which is acquired through practice, must then return to practice. The active function of knowledge manifests itself not only in the active leap from perceptual to rational knowledge, but - and this is more important - it must manifest itself in the leap from rational knowledge to revolutionary practice.
No matter how filthy of a tyrant Mao was, he was and still is a revolutionary in many people's eyes in China. He believed in action. To be able to put theory into practice is knowledge. And this knowledge itself must be used to do something revolutionary, and then it is of true value.
