Home / Quotes / Quote by Mao Zedong

Quote by Mao Zedong

“Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.”

Quote by Mao Zedong

Author

Mao Zedong, born on December 26, 1893, in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, and died on September 9, 1976. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China and served as the Chairman of the People's Republic of China. Mao played a significant role in the history of China's revolution and construction, proposing many theories and practices with profound influence. more

You May Also Like

“Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.”

Reason Powerful Enemy Most Powerful

Book:The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making

Source: The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making

“Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.”

Heart Sound Sides Sweet Wings Depth Lips Lap Deep Love Absorbing Shrines Incense Love Lies Sweet Thoughts

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.”

Sorrow Increase Consolation Deep Sorrow

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.”

Long Moon Climbs Long Day

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.”

Men Pain Attention Dying Harmony Tongue Breathe Vain Scarce

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Deep joy is a serene and sober emotion, rarely evinced in open merriment.”

Joy Emotion Sober Serene Merriment

Author:Madame Roland

“Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.”

Heart Joy Lying Hatred Burden Heavy Breasts Tombstone Heavy Burdens

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.”

Kind Art Religious Accounts Steadfast Earnestness

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.”

Men Sound Instance Daring Presuming Deep Things

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.”

Thinking Mankind Youth Conception

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe