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 popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

...the evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.