"The officers do not beat the men;..." - Quote by Mao Zedong
The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.
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“Morality begins at the point of a gun.”
“Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.”
“Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own”
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“Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read.”
“The question who ought to be boss is like who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tunor.”
“I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.”
More on Military
“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.”
“A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.”
“Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of battle.”