If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
MAO ZEDONGIf you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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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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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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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He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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