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In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.
Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.
New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.
There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
On all basic points our policies have proved correct from the very beginning.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports
The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.
In literary and art criticism there are two criteria, the political and the artistic.
People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!
The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.
Today the whole world depends on communism for its salvation, and China is no exception.
If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.
At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.
In a suitable temperature, an egg becomes a chicken, and there are no chickens born of stones.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
To link oneself with the masses, one must act in accordance with the needs and wishes of the masses.
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.
Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.
Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
Communism has nothing to do with love. Communism is an excellent hammer which we use to destroy our enemy.
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.
. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.
The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.