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

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

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.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

To read too many books is harmful.

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.

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

I mix and match, from top to bottom.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

The Bible is God’s chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Poverty is what we call the extremes at the bottom.

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.