A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
MAO ZEDONGPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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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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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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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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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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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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