Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

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

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.