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.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

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.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

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

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.