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

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.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.