Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent..

Without a People's army, the people have nothing..

Wherever our comrades go they must build good relations with the masses, be concerned for them and help them overcome their difficulties. We must uni….

The exemplary vanguard role of the Communists is of vital importance. Communists in the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies should set an example in f….

It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but….

Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, wh….

An army of the people is invincible!.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution..

Man must conquer nature..

We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among….

There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthod….

New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain ….

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have a….

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. Proletaria….

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

Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to so….

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well..

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent..

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth,….

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy..