The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

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

What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.