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

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

Man must conquer nature.

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.

There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.