In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
MAO ZEDONGIn waking a tiger, use a long stick.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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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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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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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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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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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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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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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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I voted for you during your last election.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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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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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.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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