A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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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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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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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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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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