Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.