A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
MAO ZEDONGPeople like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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 genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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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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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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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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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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