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

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that theory, however good, is of no significance.

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.

The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.