While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his comp….

It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessari….

Conditions are changing all the time, and to adapt one's thinking to the new conditions, one must study. Even those who have a better grasp of Marxis….

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the….

Communists must listen attentively to the views of people outside the Party and let them have their say. If what they say is right, we ought to welco….

There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death..

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unj….

Historical experience is written in blood and iron..

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party..

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest inte….

The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This ….

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect po….

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun..

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it..

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revol….

Civilize the mind but make savage the body..

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from th….

The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical ….

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is n….

Imperialism is a paper tiger..

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses a….