The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
Mao Tse-Tung

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Tse-Tung

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung