It is up to us to organize the people. As for the reactionaries in China, it is up to us to organize the people to overthrow them. Everything reactionary is the same; if you do not hit it, it will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish of itself.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

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.

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.