Mao Zedong Quotes

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Mao Zedong

Profession : Leader

Birth : December 26, 1893

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

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

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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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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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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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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.

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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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

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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.

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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I voted for you during your last election.

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To read too many books is harmful.

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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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

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Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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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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