Mao Zedong

"We must correct our work style and be rigorous in our demands upon ourselves."

"The path of progress is never smooth and straight."

"To advance is to make mistakes; to be motionless is to commit the greatest error."

"Man's life is limited, but serving the people is limitless."

"Unity and discipline are the foundations of strength."

"There are thousands of reasons for defeat, but no excuse for surrender."

"Build the nation with diligence and thrift; waste is shameful."

"The people must be shown that they are masters of their own destiny."

"Study the past if you would define the future."

"The peasants are the foundation of national development."

"Fear and courage are not opposites; they are partners in the dance of battle."

"Great revolutionary leaders are tempered in the fire of struggle."

"The intellectuals must learn from the workers and peasants."

"Despotism is death; democracy is life."

"There is no such thing as an unchangeable truth."

"We must distinguish between correct and incorrect comrades within the Party."

"Arrogance is the enemy of progress; humility is the foundation of growth."

"Every person has the capacity to be both good and bad; circumstances determine the outcome."

"The revolution devours its own children if they lose sight of the people."

"Never retreat when advance is possible; never surrender when victory is near."

"The atom bomb is a paper tiger used by the US reactionaries to scare people."

"Letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and sciences."

"Women hold up half the sky."

"The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish moves through water."

"All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful."

"A revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, not a painting, nor a piece of embroidery."

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

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

"To read is useful, but to read without thinking is useless."

"The correctness or incorrectness of the ideological and political line decides everything."