The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.

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

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue