If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

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!

Soldiers are the foundation of an army; unless they are imbued with a progressive political spirit, and unless such a spirit is fostered through progressive political work, it will be impossible to achieve genuine unity between officers and men, impossible to arouse their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance to the full, and impossible to provide an excellent basis for the most effective use of all our technical equipment and tactics.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the relations of production, the contradiction between classes and the contradiction between the old and the new; it is the development of these contradictions that pushes society forward and gives the impetu6 for the suppression of the old society by the new.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.