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. – Mao Zedong
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. – Mao Zedong
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship. – Mao Zedong
For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions – the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in. – Lucy Powell