Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
MAO ZEDONGThere 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.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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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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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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