Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

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.

The courage to keep trying is willingness to triumph.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward.

Rare are the people who can capture a human being.

We can see a man smiling without legs or without hands, but we can't see a man smiling without hope!

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.