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 ZEDONGLet a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush 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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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
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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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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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