While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

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

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Without a People's army, the people have nothing.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.