A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. |
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. |
All reactionaries are paper tigers. |
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. |
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. |
Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. |
Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. |
Every Communist must grasp the truth: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun |
Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole |
I voted for you during your last election. |
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. |
In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance. |
In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements |
In waking a tiger, use a long stick. |
Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. |