Mao Zedong
  • Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

  • Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

  • There is in fact no such thing as art for art's 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.

  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  • Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.