If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
MAO ZEDONGWeapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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 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, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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