There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses and the river boils. Innumerable horses race insanely into the peak of battle. 3 Mountain. Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. The sky would fall but for the columns of mountains.