Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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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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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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I voted for you during your last election.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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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