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

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

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

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

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

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.