As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.

Man must conquer nature.