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

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

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

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.