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.
MAO ZEDONGThe guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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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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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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