If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
MAO ZEDONGWe shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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