Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
MAO ZEDONGSwollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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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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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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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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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 waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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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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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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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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