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The army must become one with the people so that they see it as their own army. Such an army will be invincible, and an imperialist power like Japan will be no match for it.
On Protracted Warfare (1938)
What is knowledge? Ever since class society came into being the world has had only two kinds of knowledge, knowledge of the struggle of production and knowledge of the class struggle. Natural science and social science are the crystallization of these two kinds of knowledge, and philosophy is the generalization and summation of the knowledge of nature.
Those writings of mine aren't anything. There is nothing instructive in what I wrote.
All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
War can only be abolished through war … in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Imperialism fears China and the Arabs. Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for Imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective.
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (1957)
In any revolution, its internal causes are fundamental and its external ones are supplementary.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Democracy sometimes looks like an end in itself, but in fact it is merely a means to an end.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Protect the left-wing; support the left-wing, form and enlarge left wing units.
Directives Regarding the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Without destruction there can be no construction; without blockage there can be no flow; without stoppage there can be no movement.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Wind will not cease even if trees want to rest.
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
I like rightists... I am comparatively happy when these people on the right come into power.
I would give to Europe your crest
And to America your breast
And leave in the Orient the rest.
In a peaceful world young and old
Might share alike your warmth and cold!
You should pay attention to state affairs and carry the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution through to the end!
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
The basic ideological programme of the great proletarian Cultural Revolution is 'to combat selfishness and criticize revisionism.'
Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966)
Contradiction is present in the process of development of all things; it Italic textpermeates the process of development of each thing from beginning to end. This is the The universality and absoluteness of contradiction.
We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.
On the People's Democratic Dictatorship (1949)
Do not stop half way and do not ever go backward. There is no way behind you.
Directives Regarding the Cultural Revolution (1966)