As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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

How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.

To read too many books is harmful.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.