Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
MAO ZEDONGHe thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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 guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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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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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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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To read too many books is harmful.
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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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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