Mao Tse-Tung Quotes

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

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All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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

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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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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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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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I voted for you during your last election.

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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

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

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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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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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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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

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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

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

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

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