If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGThere is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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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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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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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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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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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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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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