He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
MAO ZEDONGTo read too many books is harmful.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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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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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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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Investigation 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.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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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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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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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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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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