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 ZEDONGWe shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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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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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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