"Let one thousand flowers bloom...." - Quote by Mao Zedong

“The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.”

“Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.”

“The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to go per cent of China's population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.”

“In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.”

“While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.”

“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”

“I go for a walk in the forest of Fontainebleau. I get 'green' indigestion. I must get rid of this sensation into a picture. Green rules it. A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.”

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.”

“Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.”