New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow..

The serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the Soviet ….

We must help all our young people to understand that ours is still a very poor country, that we cannot change this situation radically in a short tim….

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to r….

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history..

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them..

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth..

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons..

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy..

Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks..

We Communists must be able to integrate ourselves with the masses in all things. If our Party members spend their whole lives sitting indoors and nev….

Women hold up half the sky..

The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as a dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is ….

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of op….

People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time….

The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy..

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionar….

Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely….

Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary….

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation a….

Morality begins at the point of a gun..