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All Quotes by author - Mao Zedong

" A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. "

" Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. "

" Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. "

" 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. "

" I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever. "

" In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements. "

" 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. "

" In waking a tiger, use a long stick. "

" I voted for you during your last election. "

" Learn from the masses, and then teach them. "

" Let a hundred flowers bloom. "

" Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. "

" Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. "

" Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. "

" Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. "

Political Power

" Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. "

" Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. "

" 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. "

" The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. "

" The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea. "

" There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. "

" 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. "

" To read too many books is harmful. "

" We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. "

" We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view. "

" Women hold up half the sky. "

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