. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

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.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

Ninety-five per cent of my language problems are the fault of that stupid little midget.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

I like having little kids look at me. It's fun. They make these little faces.

What ignorance there is in human minds.

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us, can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.