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 ZEDONGSwollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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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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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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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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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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