If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGThe people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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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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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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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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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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