Mao Zedong - War Quotes

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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.

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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

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Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

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The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

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War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

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Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

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All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

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Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

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Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that. Our chief method is to learn warfare through warfare. A person who has had no opportunity to go to school can also learn warfare - he can learn through fighting in war. A revolutionary war is a mass undertaking; it is often not a matter of first learning and then doing, but of doing and then learning, for doing is itself learning.

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A strategic plan based on the over-all situation of both belligerents is... more stable, but it too is applicable only in a given strategic stage and has to be changed when the war moves towards a new stage.... [Conversely, tactical plans may]... have to be changed several times a day.

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The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

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As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent any possible war, but under no circumstances should we harbour any unrealistic notions about them.

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History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

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Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

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War cannot for a single minute be separated from politics.

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If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

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