When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

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

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.