An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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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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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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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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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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