People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

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.

A moment’s beginning ends in a moment

She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four.

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.

My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.

And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.

I have rendered my country and people an enormous service. They owe me everything.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.