"Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all..." - Quote by Mao Zedong
Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.
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“To read too many books is harmful.”
“Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.”
“We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.”
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“It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.”
“Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.”
“Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.”
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“Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?”
“The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.”
“All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.”