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

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.

There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

I am co-counsel and as co-counsel I have the right to represent myself, speak for myself and conduct myself and my trial by myself in my best interests in order of due process.

I wanted to make the violence beautiful in order to heighten our revulsion.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I don't think you need a record deal to write songs. You don't need any other reason than you want to do it. It's a far cry from why some people do music today. They make it to order, which is pretty horrible.

I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.