Women hold up half the sky.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

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

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

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

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.

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

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.