Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.


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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".
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Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun
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Every good communist should know that political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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Barrel of a Gun
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In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-...
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of bi...
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study ...
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoti...
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Our attitude towards ourselves should be ''to be satiable in learning'' and towards others ''to be t...
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Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformati...
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
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Só progride quem é modesto. O orgulho obriga a dar passos para trás.
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When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, p...
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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements
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Women hold up half the sky
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full o...
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks t...
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Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
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Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot...
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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Let one thousand flowers bloom
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want...
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them
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The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy re...
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting
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I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family ne...
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The Democrats are staring down the barrel of a gun.
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The Northeast is staring down the barrel of a gun.
JOE BASTARDI
You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
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You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
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With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
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We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds.
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Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural streng...
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Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural streng...
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The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.
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Hey you the "Supreme Power Within Myself" uplift my soul that I make no more mistakes and patiently ...
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Acknowledge and express your mistakes so you can prove to yourself and others that you can learn and...
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
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With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
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I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
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That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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