Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

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.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Women hold up half the sky.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.