“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well.”

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

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

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

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

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

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.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Women hold up half the sky.

On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

But at the bottom of it all there’s this theme of being honest to the people you love. I want to be that. And if Headhunters is one of the movies that help me realise that, then that’s perfect.

The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes … without stirring it up from the bottom. That’s where the bitter dregs are!

And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I’ve come to the bottom of the Word of God.

Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.