People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!

Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.

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

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

The weeds of socialism are better than crops of captilism.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes whatever the enemy supports.

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.

When we say “imperialism is ferocious”, we mean that its nature will never change, that the imperialists will never lay down their butcher knives, that they will never become Buddhas, till their doom.

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The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invinsible.

The whole world is very bright. The darker the clouds, the greater the light.

Keep the enemy in the dark about where and when our forces will attack.

Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel.

The chief enemies in China’s revolutionary war are imperialism and the feudal forces.

Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force” remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare.

This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of a few individuals or a narrow clique, but for the interests of the broad masses and of the whole nation. The sole purpose of this army is to stand firmly with the Chinese people and to serve them whole-heartedly.

The mountain goddess if she is still there  Will marvel at a world so changed.

Evil does not exist in guerrilla warfare but only in the unorganized and undisciplined activities that are anarchism.

Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

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 welcome it, and we should learn from their strong points; if it is wrong, we should let them finish what they are saying and then patiently explain things to them.

To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.

You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you.

The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people’s, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.

If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

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 unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars. Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars; we actively participate in them.

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 interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.

Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through … such is the basic method of leadership.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

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

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people’s democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

People who try to commit suicide  don’t attempt to save them!  China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

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 is especially so in the era of socialism.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

Maybe you’re afraid of sinking. Don’t think about it. If you don’t think about it, you won’t sink. If you do, you will

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

We shall support whatever our enemies oppose and oppose whatever our enemies support.

On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.

Complacency is the enemy of study.

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

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should rely on the majority of the masses and win their support.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be ‘to be satiable in learning’ and towards others ‘to be tireless in teaching.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

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 an entirely different view.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They’ve borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you…The world belongs to you. China’s future belongs to you.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

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

The Communist party must control the guns.

The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

To rebel is justified.

You can’t be a revolutionary if you don’t eat chilies.

History is a symptom of our disease.

When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon, the stupid ones look at your finger.

It’s always darkest before it becomes totally black.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

Don’t give a child a fish but show him how to fish.

An army of the people is invincible!

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

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

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.

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

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

I voted for you during your last election.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

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

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 an entirely different view

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

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

To read too many books is harmful.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Women hold up half the sky.

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

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