If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
MAO ZEDONGTo read too many books is harmful.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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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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I voted for you during your last election.
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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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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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