Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.

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.

We need but little learning to live happily.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.

People being tough with you doesn't mean they're villains.

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous comment, since a religious man respects the power of God's creation to bear witness for itself.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.