Mao Ce-tung citáty

Zdroj: Kalendář VZP 2003

„Tenhle člověk, Hitler, byl ještě dravější. Čím dravější, tím lepší, nemyslíte? Čím více lidí zabijete, tím větší jste revolucionář.“

Zdroj: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals: Mao's Last Revolution; Harvard University Press, 2006, str. 102

Zdroj: Citace z předsedy Mao Ce-tunga („Malá červená kniha“), 9. kapitola – Lidová armáda http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch09.htm

„Revoluce není slavnostní večeře nebo psaní eseje nebo malování obrazu nebo vyšívání; nemůže být tak uhlazená, nenucená a jemná, tak klidná, vlídná, zdvořilá, ukázněná a shovívavá. Revoluce je povstání, násilný čin, jímž jedna třída svrhne jinou.“

Zdroj: Citace z předsedy Mao Ce-tunga („Malá červená kniha“), 2. kapitola – Třídy a třídní boj http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm

„Naším principem je, že strana vládne pušce, a puška nikdy nesmí vládnout straně.“

„Politická moc vychází z hlavně pušky.“

Zdroj: Citace z předsedy Mao Ce-tunga („Malá červená kniha“), 5. kapitola – Válka a mír http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch05.htm

„Moc je na konci pušky.“

„Když drakovi utneš hlavu, nohy už nic neudělají, i když jich je tisíc.“

Kniha: Mao's Last Revolution, autoři: MacFarquhar, Roderick y Schoenhals, Michael, vydavatel: The Belknap Press, 2006

„Revoluce není žádná večerní párty.“

„I kdyby za každého amerického vojáka padlo deset našich, stejně vyhrajeme…“

Varianta: I kdyby za každého amerického vojáka padlo deset našich, stejně vyhrajeme…

„Všude pod nebeskou klenbou vládne dokonalý chaos; situace je znamenitá.“

Zdroj: [Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Žižek, Žižek, Slavoj, Jednou jako tragédie, podruhé jako fraška, Literární noviny, 2011-07-20, 2017-03-16, http://www.literarky.cz/civilizace/89-civilizace/4950-jednou-jako-tragedie-podruhe-jako-fraka, 1210-0021]

„Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.“

Swimming advice to physician Zhisui Li (1966), quoted in The TIME 100 (13 April 1998) http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mao.html

„I ask, on this bondless land
Who rules over man's destiny?“

Changsha (1925)
Kontext: Alone I stand in the autumn cold
On the tip of Orange Island,
Xiang flowing northward;
I see a thousand hills crimsoned through
By their serried woods deep-dyed,
And a hundred barges vying
Over crystal blue waters.
Eagles cleave the air,
Fish glide under the shallow water;
Under freezing skies a million creatures contend in freedom.
Brooding over this immensity,
I ask, on this bondless land
Who rules over man's destiny?

„Marxist philosophy holds that the law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe. This law operates universally, whether in the natural world, in human society, or in man's thinking. Between the opposites in a contradiction there is at once unity and struggle, and it is this that impels things to move and change. Contradictions exist everywhere, but they differ in accordance with the different nature of different things. In any given phenomenon or thing, the unity of opposites is conditional, temporary and transitory, and hence relative, whereas the struggle of opposites is absolute.“

On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Originál: (zh-CN) 马克思主义的哲学认为，对立统一规律是宇宙的根本规律。这个规律，不论在自然界、人类社会和人们的思想中，都是普遍存在的。矛盾着的对立面又统一，又斗争，由此推动事物的运动和变化。矛盾是普遍存在的，不过按事物的性质不同，矛盾的性质也就不同。对于任何一个具体的事物说来，对立的统一是有条件的、暂时的、过渡的，因而是相对的，对立的斗争则是绝对的。

„Racial discrimination in the United States is a product of the colonialist and imperialist system. The contradiction between the Black masses in the United States and the U. S. ruling circles is a class contradiction. Only by overthrowing the reactionary rule of the U. S. monopoly capitalist class and destroying the colonialist and imperialist system can the Black people in the United States win complete emancipation. The Black masses and the masses of white working people in the United States have common interests and common objectives to struggle for. Therefore, the Afro-American struggle is winning sympathy and support from increasing numbers of white working people and progressives in the United States. The struggle of the Black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U. S. monopoly capitalist class.“

“ A New Storm Against Imperialism https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_80.htm” (1968)

„Knowledge begins with practice, and theoretical knowledge, which is acquired through practice, must then return to practice. The active function of knowledge manifests itself not only in the active leap from perceptual to rational knowledge, but - and this is more important - it must manifest itself in the leap from rational knowledge to revolutionary practice.“

On Practice (1937)

„A revolution is not a dinner party“

Chapter 2 https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/ch02.htm, originally published in Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm (March 1927), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 28.
https://www.marxists.org/chinese/big5/nonmarxists/mao/19270300.htm.湖南農民運動考察報告
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)
Kontext: A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

„Contradiction and struggle are universal and absolute“