Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.

All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.