Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
MAO ZEDONGClasses struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.
More Mao Zedong Quotes
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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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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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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 differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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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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All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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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 think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
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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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