If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGThere 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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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