Mao Zedong

"Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy."

"Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work."

"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

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

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

"Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts."

"Women hold up half the sky."