Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.

It is necessary to master Marxist theory and apply it, master it for the sole purpose of applying it. If you can apply the Marxist-Leninist viewpoint in elucidating one or two practical problems, you should be commended and credited with some achievement.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

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

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.