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**QUOTATIONS BY MAO ZEDONG(Page 55)**

 * Directions: Read all of the quotations below. Then select five of them and briefly summarize Mao's beliefs and teachings on a separate sheet of paper.**


 * //1."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."//**

A revolution cannot happen without violence and it is a very radical event that takes place. It is not a dinner party or like painting a picture, where things are free, open, and very peaceful. A revolution often times involve death and it is a very exhaustive action.


 * //2."Wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice, and death is a common occurrence. But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great majority at heart, and when we die for the people it is a worthy death. Nevertheless, we should do our best to avoid unnecessary sacrifices."//**

This quotation shows one of the most significant ways Mao was able to control so much of the North Korean's minds. By making death seem glorifying, Mao was able to increase nationalism within the country. With high nationalism within a country, it was easier for Mao to control people's minds and make them praise him for whatever actions he take.


 * //3."In any society in which classes exist, class struggle will never end. In classless society, the struggle between the new and the old and between truth and falsehood will never end. In the fields of the struggle for production and scientific experiment, mankind makes constant progress and nature undergoes constant change; they never remain at the same level. Therefore, man has constantly to sum up experience and go on discovering, inventing, creating, and advancing."//**

The quotations visualizes Mao's thoughts and how he desires an idealistic communist society to lie under his rule. However, Mao realizes that in reality, things are never achieved easily and that men must struggle to achieve ideal things. Through these struggles, according to Mao, mankind learn and develop themselves further. Therefore, it is impossible for mankind to stop their growth in knowledge and advancement.


 * //4."Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle, and scientific experiment."//**

Even in this particular quote, the reader can easily see how Mao practiced the idea of communist doctrines everywhere. The three kinds of social practice that he mentions is based on the communist doctrines. Through this quote, by throwing questions to the audience, he is making the people think about the answers to his questions. Once the people start thinking about the questions that Mao throws to them, during the process of coming up with the answers, they learn new things and realize the true meaning of communism that Mao is trying to tell the people.


 * //5."the world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you."//**

Through this quote, I personally thought this quote was the ultimate quotation that truly revealed Mao's way of persuading people into believe him. He never stresses the fact that the world is his, nor does he exaggerates that he is the all-mighty ruler, but he likes to make the people themselves feel like they are a major part of the country, act as if they are one of the supreme powers and the significant ones of the country. By telling the people that the world could possibly be theirs in the end, is a very wise way of convincing people into believing him, therefore, luring them into communism.