When Henry Kissinger, who was then United States Secretary of State, secretly visited China and was received by Mao Zedong in 1971, Kissinger said: “When I was an International Politics professor of Harvard University, I required my students must read Chairman Mao's great works. At that time, the countrymen just knew the westerns who wanted to research the elites of China should prepare the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.” It is reported that these 28 well-knowing sayings by Mao Zedong have been moved by world people, which were regarded as the sayings which most represent the spiritual world of Mao Zedong and meanwhile some characteristics of Chinese culture.
1. The people will long live!
2. The Chinese people have since then stood up on their own feet
3. Serve the people.
4. Cold eyes look the world facing the ocean!
5. Land so rich in beauty!
6. Someone with an open mind makes him progress, but pride makes him fall behind.
7. We will not attack unless we are attacked; if we are attacked, we will certainly counter-attack.
8. Contempt for the enemy at the strategic level, attach the tactical importance to the enemy.
9. We should support whatever the enemy opposes. We should oppose whatever the enemy supports.
10. Study hard, and make progress everyday.
11. Policy and strategy are the life of the party.
12. Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
13. All reactionaries are paper tigers!
14. The word “earnest” is the most difficult to be done in the world.
15. No investigation, no right to speak.
16. An egg will change into a chick with appropriate temperature; however the temperature can not make a stone change into a chick.
17. It is not hard at all that a person does something good; but it is hard to that a person only does good things but not do a bad thing all his life.
18. An army without culture is a silly army, and a silly army can not defeat their enemies!
19. Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
20. Ask vast earth, who determine ups and downs?
21. On a fine day, the land, clad in white, adorned in red, especially enchanting.
22. Roaring across the horizon, the vast Kunlun Mountains, Read all the fairest in the world of men.
23. Man road, as the iron, the more strides we make now.
24. A person who fails to reach the Great Wall is not a hero.
25. Count talented person, still see today!
26. Regardless of the wind and waves beat, increasingly saunter along.
27. Ten thousand years is too long, seize the day and seize the hour!
28. The corruption and waste is the grave crime