Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

Those experienced in work must take up the study of theory and must read seriously; only then will they be able to systematize and synthesize their experience and raise it to the level of theory, only then will they not mistake their partial experience for universal truth and not commit empiricist errors.

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

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.

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

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.