Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Mao Zedong
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. – Mao Zedong
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun. – Mao Zedong
There is in fact no such thing as art for arts 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
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong
To those who visited the old Library of Congress at the Capitol he will always be associated with it — a long, lean figure, in scrupulous frock, erect at a standing desk, and intent upon its littered burden, while the masses of material surged incoherently about him. – Herbert Putnam, of librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), 1908, wo