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.
MAO ZEDONGThe 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.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.
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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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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
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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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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
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