Quotes

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

Women hold up half the sky.

Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one: It's right to rebel against reactionaries.

I learned to hate my father.

People who are liberals look upon the principles of Marxism as abstract dogma. They approve of Marxism, but they are not prepared to practice it in full; they are not prepared to replace their liberalism by Marxism.

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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 different view.

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

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

To read too many books is harmful.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

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 revolution is an insurrection an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

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

The Communist party must control the guns..