If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGAn army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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