"Let a hundred flowers bloom."

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"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

Politics, War

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

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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."

History, Civilization, Struggle, Years

"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."

Change, Experience, Knowledge, Eating

"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."

Thought, Policy, Progress, Culture

"To read too many books is harmful."

Books,

"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever."

Energy,

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

History, People, Force, Motive

"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun."

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"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."

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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"

Edward Abbey, American Author

Flowers,

"I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them."

Lyman Abbott, American Author

Flowers,

"As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed."

James Allen, British Author

Flowers, Humanity, Poverty

"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Louis Aragon, French Poet

Flowers, Error, Reason, Senses

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Flowers, Glory

"Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough, English Athlete

Flowers,

"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."

Jean de La Fontaine, French Poet

Flowers, Glory, Leading, Road

"When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory."

John Foxe, English Writer

Flowers, Glory, Heaven

"It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Flowers,

"By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Flowers, Humanity