If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.
Mao ZedongRevolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
Mao ZedongAnyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.
Mao ZedongEvery Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.
Mao ZedongWar can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao ZedongThe Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and willow they soar straight up into the ninth heaven and ask the prisoner of the moon, Wu Kang' what is there. He offers them wine from the cassia tree. The lonely lady on the moon, Chang 0, spreads her vast sleeves and dances for these good souls in the unending sky. Down on earth a sudden report of the tiger's defeat. Tears fly down from a great upturned bowl of rain.
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