Mao Zedong

"It is right to rebel against the reactionaries."

"Women hold up half the sky."

"All reactionaries are paper tigers."

"Guerrilla warfare will be the only way."

"Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend."

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

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Serve the people."

"Our God is the Chinese people."

"Change is the law of nature."

"Knowledge begins with practice."

"In war, numbers alone do not decide the outcome; it is courage and discipline that count."

"The highest technique is to have no technique."

"We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports."

"Every comrade must be helped to understand that the future is bright."

"Soldiers of the revolution should never be lazy or idle."

"The struggle of opposites is the basic law of the development of things."

"There is nothing in the world difficult for one who sets his mind on it."

"Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth."

"Letting things slide for the sake of peace and friendship is negative and retrograde."

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it."

"Passivity is the greatest evil."

"I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the peasantry."

"When the enemy advances, we retreat."

"We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war."

"The rectification of names must be our first task."

"The body is in motion and so is everything else."

"Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty."

"Heroism is endurance of the soul exposed to the utmost horror."

"The more books we read, the more useless they become."