Our attitude towards ourselves should be ‘to be satiable in learning’ and towards others ’to be tireless in teaching.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

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

The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invinsible...

Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but they all boil down to one sentence: It is right to rebel.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.

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