We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

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.

At times, it can feel like the loneliest place on Earth, because it’s just us. Alone with our unanswered prayers

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

We live in a society where interacting with government agents is apotentially hazardous activity

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again.

You can shut down a service, and yet people will find ways to communicate.

The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

Successful ecologists are successful in part because they have prepared their minds to attack scientific problems using a variety of intellectual tools.

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.