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.
MAO ZEDONGThere is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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