If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to go per cent of China's population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

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

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.