Trivialized the "little red book" or the "Mao bible", this book is a loose collection of quotes by Mao Tse-Tung. These sayings are never very clever or even inspiring, they are mostly shallow and petty. That's exactly what they would be known for if they wouldn't have originated from the "great" Mao Tse-Tung.

It's definitely not earned world literature, but it isn't uninteresting to read the popular discourses with which a dictator and mass murderer knew to thrill his nation. ( )

"Political power grows out of the barral of a gun" 61

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily weilded by people." 139

"Not having a correct political point of view is like having no soul." 142

"Be united, alert, earnest and lively." 147

"the source of ultra-democracy consists in the petty bourgeousie's individulaistic aversion to discipline." 163-164 ( )

The Little Red Book. A collection of excerpts from the speeches and writings of Mao in conscious imitation of the Analects of Confucius.