Let's contemplate this, how many people would die if war breaks out. There are 2.7 billion people in the world. One-third could be lost; or, a little more, it could be half... I say that, taking the extreme situation, half dies, half lives, but imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.

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

In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. However, we should all realize that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

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

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