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Mao Tse-Tung
If you want...
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...
The people are...
The people are like water and the army is like fish.
Source: 'Aspects of China's...
Take the ideas...
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into...
So long as...
So long as a person who has made mistakes. . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we...
Revolution is not...
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced...
To read too...
To read too many books is harmful.
Source: The New Yorker, 7 Mar 1977
-- Mao...
Swollen in head,...
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Source: On...
There is in...
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or...
Letting a hundred...
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of...
The enemy advances,...
The enemy advances, we retreat.
The enemy camps, we harass.
The enemy tires, we attack.
The enemy retreats,...