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.

Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

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

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.