QUOTATIONS FROM

CHAIRMAN
MAO TSE-TUNG





FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1966

First Edition 1966



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (May 2000)



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

Lin Piao  











A facsimile of the above state-
ment by Comrade Lin Piao in
his own handwriting appears
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FOREWORD TO
THE SECOND EDITION OF
QUOTATIONS FROM
CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG

(December 16, 1966)

Lin Piao


    Comrade Mao Tse-tung is the greatest Marxist-Leninist of our era. He has inherited, defended and developed Marxism-Leninism with genius, creatively and comprehensively and has brought it to a higher and completely new stage.
    Mao Tse-tung's thought is Marxism-Leninism of the era in which imperialism is heading for total collapse and socialism is advancing to world-wide victory. It is a powerful ideological weapon for opposing imperialism and for opposing revisionism and dogmatism. Mao Tse-tung's thought is the guiding principle for all the work of the Party, the army and the country.
    Therefore, the most fundamental task in our Party's political and ideological work is at all times to hold high the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, to arm the minds of the people throughout the country with it and to persist in using it to command every field of activity. The broad masses of the workers, peasants and soldiers and the broad ranks of the revolutionary cadres and the intellectuals should really master Mao Tse-tung's thought; they should all study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings, act according to his instructions and be his good fighters.
    In studying the works of Chairman Mao, one should have specific problems in mind, study and apply his works in a creative way, combine study with application, first study what must be urgently applied so as to get quick results, and strive hard to apply what one is studying. In order really to master Mao Tse-tung's thought, it is


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essential to study many of Chairman Mao's basic concepts over and over again, and it is best to memorize important statements and study and apply them repeatedly. The newspapers should regularly carry quotations from Chairman Mao relevant to current issues for readers to study and apply. The experience of the broad masses in their creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works in the last few years has proved that to study selected quotations from Chairman Mao with specific problems in mind is a good way to learn Mao Tse-tung's thought, a method conducive to quick results.
    We have compiled Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung in order to help the broad masses learn Mao Tse-tung's thought more effectively. In organizing their study, units should select passages that are relevant to the situation, their tasks, the current thinking of their personnel, and the state of their work.
    In our great motherland, a new era is emerging in which the workers, peasants and soldiers are grasping Marxism-


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Leninism, Mao Tse-tung's thought. Once Mao Tse-tung's thought is grasped by the broad masses, it becomes an inexhaustible source of strength and a spiritual atom bomb of infinite power. The large-scale publication of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-fung is a vital measure for enabling the broad masses to grasp Mao Tse-tung's thought and for promoting the revolutionization of our people's thinking. It is our hope that all comrades will learn earnestly and diligently, bring about a new nation-wide high tide in the creative study and application of Chairman Mao's works and, under the great red banner of Mao Tse-tung's thought, strive to build our country into a great socialist state with modern agriculture, modern industry, modern science and culture and modern national defence!







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C O N T E N T S

I.

The Communist Party

1

II.

Classes and Class Struggle

8

III.

Socialism and Communism

23

IV.
 

The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among
the People


45

V.

War and Peace

58

VI.
 

Imperialism and All Reactionaries Are Paper
Tigers


72

VII.

Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win

82

VIII.

People's War

88

IX.

The People's Army

99

X.

Leadership of Party Committees

104

XI.

The Mass Line

118

XII.

Political Work

134

XIII.

Relations Between Officers and Men

148

XIV.

Relations Between the Army and the People

153

XV.

Democracy in the Three Main Fields

157

XVI.

Education and the Training of Troops

165

XVII.

Serving the People

170

XVIII.

Patriotism and Internationalism

175

XIX.

Revolutionary Heroism

181

XX.
 

Building Our Country Through Diligence and
Frugality


186

XXI.

Self-Reliance and Arduous Struggle

194

XXII.

Methods of Thinking and Methods of Work

203

XXIII.

Investigation and Study

230

XXIV.

Ideological Self-Cultivation

237

XXV.

Unity

251

XXVI.

Discipline

254

XXVII.

Criticism and Self-Criticism

258

XXVIII.

Communists

268

XXIX.

Cadres

276

XXX.

Youth

288

XXXI.

Women

294

XXXII.

Culture and Art

299

XXXIII.

Study

304







    Unless otherwise stated, the page number given for the source of a quotation refers to the first English edition of the book or pamphlet cited as published by the Foreign Languages Press, Peking.
    In cases where a word or phrase linked to the preceding text has been omitted in the opening sentence of the quotation, an asterisk is placed after the source. This is also done in a number of places where the English rendering has been reworded to make up for omission of context or to improve the translation.

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