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.

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.

There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. Young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you...The world belongs to you. China's future belongs to you.

Be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

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

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.