An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
- Mao Zedong Quote
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
- Mao Zedong Quote
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
- Mao Zedong Quote
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 Quote
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
- Mao Zedong Quote
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 Quote
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Zedong Quote
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 Quote
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 Quote