"Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul."
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"Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole."
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"All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just."
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"Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people."
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"The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord."
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"All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!"
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"The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge."
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"People who try to commit suicide - don't attempt to save them! . . . China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people."
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"Once all struggles are grasped, miracles are possible."
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"What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people."
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"There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war."
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"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."
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"The Chinese people have stood up."
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"Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling."
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"Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south."
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"Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support."
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"We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting."
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"Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity."
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"There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent."
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"If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance."
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