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.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.