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

I voted for you during your last election.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses.

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.

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.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it’s not easy. You have to take direct steps.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied… That’s why they can keep on working.

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.