Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

It was the Russians that introduced the Chinese to Marxism. Before the October Revolution, the Chinese were not only ignorant of Lenin and Stalin but did not even know of Marx or Engels. The salvos of the October Revolution awoke us to Marxism-Leninism.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

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