Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

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

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

The popular masses are like water, and the army is like a fish. How then can it be said that when there is water, a fish will have difficulty in preserving its existence? An army which fails to maintain good discipline gets into opposition with the popular masses, and thus by its own action dries up the water.

Just because we have won victory, we must never relax our vigilance against the frenzied plots for revenge by the imperialists and their running dogs. Whoever relaxes vigilance will disarm himself politically and land himself in a passive position.

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

The most important thing is to be strong. With strength, one can conquer others, and to conquer others gives one virtue.