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

You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?

The attitude of Communists towards any person who has made mistakes in his work should be one of persuasion in order to help him change and start afresh and not one of exclusion, unless he is incorrigible.

Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water: Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.