Mao Tse TungThinkers

Diversity is important — Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

Politics is war without bloodshed.

Politics is grounded in violence and threat — Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Power is grounded in violence and threat — it grows out of the barrel of a gun.