Mao Zedong Quotes

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Mao Zedong

Profession : Leader

Birth : December 26, 1893

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

Mao Zedong

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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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

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All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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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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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.

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

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