“Dont give a child a fish but show him how to fish”

“Mao recalled: "Very many members of our family have given their lives, killed by the Kuomintang and the American imperialists. You grew up eating honey, and thus far you have never known suffering. In the future, if you do not become a rightist, but rather a centrist, I shall be satisfied. You have never suffered--how can you be a leftist?" ”

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”

“The Communist party must control the guns.”

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

“I am a lone monk walking the world with a leaky umbrella.”

“History is a symptom of our disease”