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.
MAO ZEDONGPeople like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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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 people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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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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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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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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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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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