Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
MAO ZEDONGLearn from the masses, and then teach them.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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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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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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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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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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