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Mao Zedong
Chinese
Leader
About the author
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#People
#World
#Motive
#History
#Force
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Energy
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#War
#Order
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Books
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.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Art
#Cause
#Fact
#Literature
#Politics
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.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Policy
#Thought
#Culture
#Flowers
#Progress
#Land
#Schools
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.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Want
#Eating
#Experience
#Knowledge
#Change
#Revolution
#Theory
#Taste
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Years
#Civilization
#History
#Struggle
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Enemy
#Culture
#Defeat
#Army
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#War
#Politics
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong,
Chinese
Leader
#Flowers