Frases de Mao Tsé-Tung

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“Quem são os nossos inimigos? Quem são os nossos amigos? Essa é uma pergunta importantíssima Para a Revolução.”

“Para fazermos a revolução necessitamos dum partido revolucionário. Sem um partido revolucionário, sem um partido fundado na teoria revolucionária marxista-leninista, é impossível dirigir a classe operária e as grandes massas do povo à vitória sobre o imperialismo e os seus lacaios.”

“Poder político cresce do cano de uma arma.”

“A prática é o critério da verdade.”

“A nossa posição é a do proletariado e das massas populares.”

“O sistema socialista acabará por substituir o sistema capitalista; essa é um lei objetiva, independente da vontade do homem. Por muito que os reacionários tendem impedir o avanço da roda da história, tarde ou cedo a revolução se fará e conquistará inevitavelmente a vitória.”

“Seja resoluto, não tenha medo de sacrifícios e derrube todas as dificuldades para a vitória.”

“Comunismo não é amor, comunismo é um martelo com o qual se golpeia o inimigo”

“O povo, e só o povo, constitui a força motriz na criação da história universal.”

“Não há caminhos retos no mundo.”

“Todo o conhecimento genuíno tem origem na experiência direta.”

“O inimigo avança, retiramos. O inimigo acampa, provocamos. O inimigo cansa, atacamos. O inimigo se retira, perseguimos.”

“A política é uma guerra sem derramamento de sangue, e a guerra uma política com derramamento de sangue.”

“Devemos apoiar tudo que o inimigo combate, e combater tudo o que o inimigo apóia.”

“O poder nasce da ponta do cano de um fuzil.”

“Somos a favor da abolição da guerra, não queremos a guerra. Mas a guerra só pode ser abolida com a guerra. Para que não existam mais fuzis, é preciso empunhar o fuzil.”

“Os camponeses ricos têm uma forte propensão para o capitalismo.”

“Só progride quem é modesto. O orgulho obriga a dar passos para trás.”

“A bomba atómica é um tigre de papel que os reaccionários americanos usam para assustar as pessoas.”

“O urgente geralmente atenta contra o necessário.”

“Guardar-se da arrogância. Isso constitui uma questão de princípio para os dirigentes, mas é também uma importante condição para manter a unidade. Nem mesmo aqueles que não cometeram erros graves e conseguiram grandes êxitos no trabalho devem ser arrogantes.”

“Nós devemos banir das nossas fileiras toda a ideologia feita de fraqueza e impotência. São errados todos os pontos de vista que valorizam a força do inimigo e subestimam a força do povo.”

“A auto-satisfação é inimiga do estudo. Se queremos realmente aprender alguma coisa, devemos começar por libertar-nos disso. Em relação a nós próprios devemos ser 'insaciáveis na aprendizagem' e em relação aos outros, 'insaciáveis no ensino'.”

“O poder político nasce do cano da espingarda.”

“The food of the true revolutionary is the red pepper, And he who cannot endure red peppers is also unable to fight.”

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

“In accordance with Dr. Sun's principles and the experience of the Chinese revolution, China's national economy at the present stage should be composed of the state sector, the private sector and the co-operative sector. But the state here must certainly not be one "privately owned by the few", but a new-democratic state "shared by all the common people" under the leadership of the proletariat.”

“Under the leadership of their democratic governments, all the anti-Japanese people in the Liberated Areas of China are called upon to join organizations of workers, peasants, youth and women, and cultural, professional and other organizations, which will wholeheartedly perform various tasks in support of the armed forces. Those tasks are not limited to rallying the people to join the army, transporting grain for it, caring for soldiers' families and helping the troops in meeting their material needs. They also include mobilizing the guerrilla units, militia and self-defence corps to make widespread raids and lay land mines against the enemy, gather intelligence about him, comb out traitors and spies, transport and protect the wounded and take direct part in the army's operations.”

“The fact is that no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation. Without its opposite aspect, each loses the condition for its existence”

“Beyond all doubt, the urgent need is to unite representatives of all political parties and groups and of people without any party affiliation and establish a provisional democratic coalition government for the purpose of instituting democratic reforms, surmounting the present crisis, mobilizing and unifying all the anti-Japanese forces in the country to fight in effective co-ordination with the allied countries for the defeat of the Japanese aggressors, and thus enabling the Chinese people to liberate themselves from the latter's clutches. After that it will be necessary to convene a national assembly on a broad democratic basis and set up a formally constituted democratic government, which will also be in the nature of a coalition and will have a still wider representation of people from all parties and groups or without any party affiliation, and which will lead the liberated people of the whole country in building an independent, free, democratic, united, prosperous and powerful new China. In short, we must take the line of unity and democracy, defeat the aggressors and build a new China.”

“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 socialist culture in our land. Different forms and styles in art should develop freely and different schools in science should contend freely. We think that it is harmful to the growth of art and science if administrative measures are used to impose one particular style of art or school of thought and to ban another. Questions of right and wrong in the arts and sciences should be settled through free discussion in artistic and scientific circles and through practical work in these fields. They should not be settled in summary fashion.”

“I am a layman in matters of culture; I would like to study them, but have only just begun to do so.”

“Wide, wide flow the nine streams through the land, Dark, dark threads the line from south to north. Blurred in the thick haze of the misty rain Tortoise and Snake hold the great river locked. The yellow crane is gone, who knows whither? Only this tower remains a haunt for visitors. I pledge my wine to the surging torrent, The tide of my heart swells with the waves.”

“Where there is oppression, there is revolt.”

“The "Cabinet meeting" of the Chinese government is really quick in yielding. Even the fart of foreigners can be taken as "fragrance." The Cabinet meeting lifts the cotton export ban because foreigners want cotton; it orders "all provinces to stop collecting the cigarette tax" because foreigners want to import cigarettes. Let the 400 million compatriots again think it over: Isn't it correct to say that the Chinese government is the bookkeeper of foreigners?”

“Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.”

“Of the two contradictory aspects, one must be principal and the other secondary. The principal aspect is the one playing the leading role in the contradiction. The nature of a thing is determined mainly by the principal aspect of a contradiction, the aspect that has gained the dominant position. But this situation is not static; the principal and the non-principal aspects of a contradiction transform themselves into each other and the nature of the thing changes accordingly.”

“Our point of departure is to serve the people whole-heartedly and never for a moment divorce ourselves from the masses, to proceed inall cases from the interests of the people and not from one's self-interest or from the interests of a small group, and to identify our responsibility to the people with out responsibility to the leading organs of the Party.”

“Protect the interests of the youth, women and children--provide assistance to young students who cannot afford to continue their studies, help the youth and women to organize in order to participate on a equal footing in all work useful to the war effort and to social progress, ensure freedom of marriage and equality as between men and women, and give young people and children a useful education.”

“Before it explodes, a bomb is a single entity in which opposites coexist in given conditions. The explosion takes place only when a new condition, ignition, is present. An analogous situation arises in all those natural phenomena which finally assume the form of open conflict to resolve old contradictions and produce new things.”

“The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.”

“It is absolutely necessary for educated young people to go to the countryside to be re-educated by the poor and lower-middle peasants. Cadres and other city people should be persuaded to send their sons and daughters who have finished junior or senior middle school, college, or university to the countryside. Let us mobilize. Comrades throughout the countryside should welcome them.”

“The revolutionary red guards and revolutionary student organizations must form a grand alliance. As long as they are revolutionary mass organizations, they must form a great alliance according to revolutionary principles.”

“Democracy sometimes looks like an end in itself, but in fact it is merely a means to an end.”

“The peoples of the world must have courage, dare to fight, and fear no hardships. When the ones in front fall, the others behind must follow up. In this way, the world will belong to the people and all the demons will be eliminated.”

“The basic contradiction the great proletarian Cultural Revolution is trying to resolve is the one between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, between the proletarian and bourgeois roads. The main point of the movement is to struggle against the capitalist roaders in authority in the party.”

“Young people should be permitted to make mistakes. As long as their general orientation is correct, let them make minor mistakes. I believe that they can correct themselves in practical work.”

“This is a movement on a vast scale. It has indeed mobilized the masses. It is of very great significance to the revolutionization of the thinking of the people throughout the country.”

“Wind will not cease even if trees want to rest.”

“It is to the advantage of despots to keep people ignorant; it is to our advantage to make them intelligent. We must lead all of them gradually away from ignorance.”

“We, the communists, do not want official positions; we want revolution. We must have a thoroughly revolutionary spirit and must be with the masses every hour, every minute. As long as we are with the masses, we shall always be victorious.”

“Do not stop half way and do not ever go backward. There is no way behind you.”

“Guard against revisionism, particularly the emergence of revisionism at the party Centre.”