Quotes about Mao Tse-tung

Jiang Qing

I was Chairman Mao's dog. Whomever he told me to bite, I bit.

Earl Browder

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

Chiang Kai-shek

Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.

It was Mao whose brilliant leadership defeated Chiang and forced him give up China and flee to Taiwan. It was not Mao’s military ability, but his understanding of the Chinese people and how to lead and motivate them that enabled him to be victorious. Chiang, the better general and military tactician, was a strategic failure and his only experience with the average Chinese person was to rule, intimidate and command him.

Steven Ernest Sailer

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

Sailer’s point is well taken though the accuracy of the numbers in his comparison depends on definition. If one assumes that the Hitler murders are confined to the 6 million or so Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals then his numbers are right, But most people include the 22 million Russians killed in WWII and the other WWII deaths civilian and military and then Hitler caused deaths are much greater. However, the numbers are not critical to his point which is that under the guise of promoting equality many dictators have caused many deaths just as have the dictators who were preaching inequality. Extremism is always the problem.

Malcolm X

I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.

Lin Biao

Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teaching and act according to his instructions.

Ted Nugent

Mao Tse Tung lives and his name is Barack Hussein Obama. This country should be ashamed. I wanna throw up.

Jerry Brown

I don't believe in the cult of personality, having my portrait hung all over the place like Ronald Reagan or Mao Tse-tung.

Isaiah Berlin

To make mankind just and happy and creative and harmonious forever—what would be too high a price to pay for that? To make such an omelette, there is surely no limit to the number of eggs that should be broken—that was the faith of Lenin, of Trotsky, of Mao… of Pol Pot…. You declare that a given policy will make you happier, or freer or give you room to breathe: but I know you are mistaken. I know what you need, what all men need; and if there is resistance based on ignorance or malevolence, then it must be broken and hundreds of thousands may have to perish to make millions happy for all time.

Barbara Demick

In 1949, Mao Tse-tung's Communists established the People's Republic of China, and the following year, his People's Liberation Army invaded central Tibet.

Ferdinand Marcos

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

David Lampton

Mao almost never allowed public opinion to restrain his policies; the popular will was something he himself defined …. Today, in contrast, almost all Chinese leaders openly speak about the importance of public opinion with the goal being to preempt problems.

Norodom Sihanouk

It's not Mao Tse-tung who threatens southeast Asia, nor is it Ho Chi Minh. If all of Indochina becomes communist, we can thank America, its mistakes, blunders, crimes and imperialism which protects or launches invariably corrupt, dictatorial and unpopular regimes simply because they are anti-communist.

Fred Hampton

We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.

Mao Tse-tung Quotes