An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Category: Army And Navy
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Category: Arts And Artists
To read too many books is harmful.
Category: Books And Reading
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Category: Class
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Category: Communism And Socialism
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Category: Conservatives
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.
Category: Culture
Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be tireless in teaching.''
Category: Education
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.
Category: Knowledge
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
Category: Masses
Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own, hold fast to them and translate them into action, and test the correctness of these ideas in such action. Then once again concentrate ideas from the masses and once again go to the masses so that the ideas are persevered in and carried through. And so on, over and over again in an endless spiral, with the ideas becoming more correct, more vital and richer each time. Such is the Marxist theory of knowledge.
Category: Masses
So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
Category: Mistakes
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Category: Peace
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
Category: People
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Category: Politicians And Politics