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  1. 1

    A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

    Mao Zedong
    Revolutions and Revolutionaries
  2. 2

    All reactionaries are paper tigers.

    Mao Zedong
    Conservatives
  3. 3

    All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

    Mao Zedong
    Reactionary
  4. 4

    An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

    Mao Zedong
    Army and Navy
  5. 5

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

    Mao Zedong
    Class
  7. 6

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

    Mao Zedong
    Communism and Socialism
  8. 7

    Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

    Mao Zedong
    Uncategorised
  9. 8

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

    Mao Zedong
    Masses
  10. 9

    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
    Knowledge
  11. 10

    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
    Culture
  12. 11

    Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

    Mao Zedong
    Education
  13. 12

    Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

    Mao Zedong
    Power
  14. 13

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

    Mao Zedong
    Politicians and Politics
  15. 14

    Power grows from the barrel of a gun.

    Mao Zedong
  16. 15

    So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

    Mao Zedong
    Mistakes
  18. 16

    Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.

    Mao Zedong
    Masses
  19. 17

    The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

    Mao Zedong
    Uncategorised
  20. 18

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

    Mao Zedong
    People
  21. 19

    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
    Arts and Artists
  22. 20

    To read too many books is harmful.

    Mao Zedong
    Books and Reading
  23. 21

    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
    Peace
  24. 22

    Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

    Mao Zedong
    Weapon

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