Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
MAO ZEDONGAll genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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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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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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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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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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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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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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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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