Morality begins at the point of a gun.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force. Even after countrywide victory, our army will remain a fighting force during the historical period in which classes have not been abolished in our country and the imperialist system still exists in the world. On this point, there should be no misunderstanding or wavering.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.