The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

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

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are two essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.

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