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.
MAO ZEDONGOn this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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