Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted: Mao Zedong

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
Mao Zedong

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong

I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong