The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

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.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.