When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

In China the struggle to consolidate the socialist system, the struggle to decide whether socialism or capitalism will prevail, will still take a long historical period. However, we should all realize that the new system of socialism will unquestionably be consolidated. We can assuredly build a socialist state with modern industry, modern agriculture, and modern science and culture.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

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

Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.