Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
MAO ZEDONGDespise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.
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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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Women hold up half the sky.
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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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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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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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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.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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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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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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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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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To read too many books is harmful.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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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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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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