Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

That has less significance than a dog's fart.

The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

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

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.