Deaths have benefits. They can fertilize... by Mao Zedong | We Heart Quotes

Revolution China Communist chairman Cultural Revolution

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilize the ground.

- Mao Zedong

Other quotes by Mao Zedong

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

- Mao Zedong

History World People

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

- Mao Zedong

Change Want

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

Army Defeat

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

- Mao Zedong

It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

- Mao Zedong

Struggle History Years

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

- Mao Zedong

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