Mao Zedong Quotes
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. 
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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.
- Mao Zedong
[The authors have reduced him to a bloodthirsty, power-obsessed egotist, someone who never believed in communism, nor in anything else, and this from the very first pages of the book.] I do not agree with the view that to be moral, the motive of one's action has to be benefiting others... People like me want to satisfy our hearts to the full, and in doing so we automatically have the most valuable moral codes.
- Mao Zedong