#in

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

#equal #equal pay #equal work #every #front

In waking a tiger, use a long stick. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#stick #tiger #use #waking

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. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

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

— Mao Zedong

#classes #eliminated #history #others #some

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. ↗

— John Updike

#imagery #inspirational #love #lovers #metaphor

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#day #indeed #investigate #investigation #likened

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. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#atom bomb #bomb #fact #in fact #looks

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#cannot #differences #friends #friendship #reinforce