All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.

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

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.

To read too many books is harmful.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target". As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target", shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.