Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.
Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.
All counter-revolutionary wars are unjust, all revolutionary wars are just.
It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.
Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.
Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine.
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
The membership of our party is necessarily a small portion of the Chinese people. Only if that small portion reflects the opinions of the majority of the people's, and only if it works for their interests can the relationship between the people and the party be healthy.
Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.
There is in guerrilla warfare no such thing as a decisive battle; there is nothing comparable to the fixed, passive defense that characterizes orthodox war.
I am hated by many, especially comrade Pang Dehuai, his hatred is so intense that he wished me dead. My policy with Pang Dehuai is such: You don't touch me, I don't touch you; You touch me, I touch you. Even though we were once like brothers, it doesn't change a thing.
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.
Knowledge is a matter of science and no dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible. What is required is definitely the reverse - honesty and modesty.
On what basis should our policy rest? It should rest on our own strength, and that means regeneration through one's own efforts. We are not alone; all the countries and people in the world opposed to imperialism are our friends. Nevertheless, we stress regeneration through our own efforts. Relying on the forces we ourselves organize, we can defeat all Chinese and foreign reactionaries.
We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war.
Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people.
A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.
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