The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.