“Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.”

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

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

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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.

Or when an old relationship deepens into friendship, or when one finds an old friendship intact despite the passage of years and many absences.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what’s inside of all of us.

Despite the great advantages of digital video and the great ease of using the medium, still those who use it have first to understand the sensitivities of how to best use the medium.

Despite all of your mistakes, I stayed – and that was mine.

Life wasn’t always easy to live but you are here despite it all.

Walking away from someone that you believe you love, despite them being an unhealthy match for you, is one of the hardest things to do.

Our greatest human freedom is that, despite whatever our physical situation is in life, we are always free to choose our thoughts.