A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
I voted for you during your last election.
In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
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.
Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
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 masses embrace them as their own.
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.
The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
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.
When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.