Quotes by Mao Zedong
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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.
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
To read too many books is harmful.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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.
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Women hold up half the sky.
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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