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

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.

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.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.’ To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: ‘This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

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.