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

Let a hundred flowers bloom.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

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

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.

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.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

To read too many books is harmful.

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

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

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

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy

War can only be abolished through war and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Its always darkest before it becomes totally black.

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

Complacency is the enemy of study.

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.

Ours is a peoples democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the worker peasant alliance.

Disaster and chaos are always good.

Despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically.

Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish.

Imperialism is a paper tiger.

We are indebted to Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. The weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Morality begins at the point of a gun.

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin which not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that count.

The spark from a tiny star can ignite the plains.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance.

The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.