If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGIf 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.
MAO ZEDONGOnce all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
MAO ZEDONGThe guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
MAO ZEDONGPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONGLearn from the masses, and then teach them.
MAO ZEDONGThe 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 ZEDONGEnable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
MAO ZEDONGThe people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
MAO ZEDONGPassivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
MAO ZEDONGWomen hold up half the sky.
MAO ZEDONGOn this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
MAO ZEDONGI voted for you during your last election.
MAO ZEDONGTo read too many books is harmful.
MAO ZEDONGPeople like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
MAO ZEDONGPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
MAO ZEDONG