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Favourite Quote for the Night: Vladimir Lenin

Sometimes History Needs a Push...

I particularly like this quote of Mao Zedong; i think it applies to ALL KNOWLEDGE AND ALL ENDEAVOUR. It's a very big and very good 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

"Well May We Say: God Save the Queen, Because Nothing Will Save The Australian Labor Party!"

a good quote from Mao Zedong

Classes struggle,

some classes triumph,

others are eliminated.

Such is history;

such is the history of civilization

for thousands of years.

Mao Zedong

Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted: Zhou En Lai

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.

• For us, it is all right if the talks succeed, and it is all right if they fail.

• China is an attractive piece of meat coveted by all … but very tough, and for years no one has been able to bite into it.

• We shall use only peaceful means and we shall not permit any other kind of method.

• It is too soon to say.
  • Often, thought to refer to the significance of the French Revolution of 1789.

Quotes from the Unlikely to be Quoted: Mao Zedong

Women hold up half the sky.
Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong

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

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
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Mao Zedong

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
Mao Zedong
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Mao Zedong

I voted for you during your last election.
Mao Zedong
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Mao Zedong

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
Mao Zedong

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.
Mao Zedong