War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
MAO ZEDONGInvestigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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