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.

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.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

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.