Mao Zedong Thought

Famous quotes containing the words mao zedong, zedong and/or thought:

“Our attitude towards ourselves should be “to be satiable in learning” and towards others “to be tireless in teaching.””
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

“Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China’s 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank.” This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.”
—Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

“They thought it good you hear a play,
And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)