"If one must fight one should confine..." - Quote by Mao Zedong

“Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.”

“The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment... Whenever soldiers of enemy forces are captured, we immediately conduct propaganda among them...This immediately knocks the bottom out of the enemy's slander that the Communist bandits kill everyone on sight.”

“New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.”

“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”

“What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.”

“The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.”

“A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.”

“Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean.”

“I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.”