Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who...

Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them

The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue

The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land

The guerilla campaigns being waged in China today are a page in history that has no precedent. Their influence will be confined not solely to China in her present anti-Japanese struggle, but will be world-wide.

So long as a person who has made mistakes. . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can...

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

In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigour and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight...

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

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history

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...

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

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.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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

…this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy’s strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy’s strategic consolidation...

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting

Every Communist must grasp the truth: “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in...

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

History is a symptom of our disease

Women hold up half the sky

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely...

I voted for you during your last election.

An army of the people is invincible!

Let one thousand flowers bloom

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t… All reactionaries are paper tigers.

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A...

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the...

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.

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

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

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

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