All reactionaries are paper tigers.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Women do get drunk, they do get sick and they do get food poisoning. It seems to be a bit of a surprise to people that they are seeing it.

Systems permit ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results predictably.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Those who do not know must be taught, not punished. We do not hit the blind. We lead them by the hand.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.