Mao Zedong — "We must despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically."

"We must learn to do economic work from all who know how. No matter who they are, we must respect them as teachers, learn from them respectfully and conscientiously."

"The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours."

"We must not only be good at destroying the old world, we must also be good at building the new."

"There is no construction without destruction. Destruction means criticism, means revolution. Destruction precedes construction."

"There are two kinds of peace: one is the peace of slavery, and the other is the peace of freedom."