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

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  Military, Army, Enemy

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.303, China Books

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• Imperialism is a paper tiger.

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  Paper, Imperialism, Tigers

  Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• The comrades throughout the Party must take all this fully into account and be prepared to overcome all difficulties with an indomitable will and in a planned way. The reactionary forces and we both have difficulties. But the difficulties of the reactionary forces are insurmountable because they are forces on the verge of death and have no future. Our difficulties can be overcome because we are new and rising forces and have a bright future.

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  Party, Struggle, Self Reliance

  Zedong Mao (1954). “Selected Works”

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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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  Communication, Weather, People

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

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• The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

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  Differences, Lost Friendship

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• No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

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  Party, Profound, Political

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.537, Routledge

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• We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

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  World, Study, Building

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.305, China Books

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• Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

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  War, Army, Politics

  "Mao's Road to Power: The pre-Marxist period, 1912-1920".

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• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

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  People, Scare, United States

  Interview by Anne Louise Strong, Aug. 1946

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• Man must conquer nature.

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  Men, Environmental, Conquer

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• There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

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  Heaven, Excellent, Disorder

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• The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

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  Sky, Mouths, Bigger

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

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  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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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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  Struggle, Class, Chinese

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

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• There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

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  Heaven, Excellent, Turmoil

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• Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

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  Strong, Party, Views

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.140, Lulu.com

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• Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

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  Mistake, Party, Example

  "The Artful Albanian" by Enver Hoxha, Chatto & Windus, London, 1986.

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

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  Struggle, Years, Civilization

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.8, China Books

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• The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.

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  Sight, Giving, Soldier

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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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  Sex, Equality, Transformation

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.297, China Books

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• In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

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  Eggs, Stones, Temperature

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• If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

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  Chinese Revolution, Want, Method

  1937 Address to the Anti- Japanese Military and Political College, Jul.

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• It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

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  Rebel, Reactionaries

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

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• An army of the people is invincible!

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  Army, People, Mao

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Believe, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.44, Lulu.com

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