Politics is war without blood, while war is politics with blood.

All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Maybe you're afraid of sinking. Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

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

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

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.

No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

It’s not greed that drives the world, but envy.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations.

Love is many things none of them logical.

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us.