You have never suffered-how can you be a leftist?
Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.
Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.
People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!
Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.
All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.
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 revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
What is work? Work is struggle. There are difficulties and problems in those places for us to overcome and solve. We go there to work and struggle to overcome these difficulties. A good comrade is one who is more eager to go where the difficulties are greater.
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.
Revolution is a drama of passion. We did not win the people over by appealing to reason but by developing hope, trust, fraternity.
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
There is turmoil under the heavens. The prospects are excellent.
You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.
Man must conquer nature.
New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.
In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and the reactionary section of the intelligentsia attached to them. The leading force in our revolution is the industrial proletariat. Our closest friends are the entire semi-proletariat and petty bourgeoisie. As for the vacillating middle bourgeoisie, their right wing may become our enemy and their left wing may become our friend - but we must be constantly on our guard and not let them create confusion within our ranks.
Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.
Communists must never separate themselves from the majority of the people or neglect them by leading only a few progressive contingents in an isolated and rash advance, but must take care to forge close links between the progressive elements and the broad masses. This is what thinking in terms of the majority means.
Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.
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