Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONGPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
MAO ZEDONGThe differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
MAO ZEDONGTo read too many books is harmful.
MAO ZEDONGAll reactionaries are paper tigers.
MAO ZEDONGDespise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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 ZEDONGI voted for you during your last election.
MAO ZEDONGLet a hundred flowers bloom.
MAO ZEDONGSwollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
MAO ZEDONGLetting 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.
MAO ZEDONGInvestigation 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.
MAO ZEDONGThe atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.
MAO ZEDONGThe people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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 ZEDONGIn waking a tiger, use a long stick.
MAO ZEDONGAll genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
MAO ZEDONG