“It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.”

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

“If man's heart bares thistles instead of rose who will dare to admire? Before roses cometh thorns, but people only see the thorns not the roses I bare.”

“Mass struggle was utilized throughout the war by the Vietnamese communist party. It was used, first of all, because guerrilla warfare is one expression of the mass struggle. One cannot conceive of guerrilla war when it is isolated from the people. The guerrilla group is the numerically inferior vanguard of the great majority of the people, who have no weapons but express themselves through the vanguard.”

“I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.”

“Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.”

“People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.”

“The majority of mankind and people who lack refinement conceive it to be pleasure, and hence they approve a life of sensual enjoyment.”

“To redeem creation the saint wages war on the entire fabric of creation, with the bare weapons of truth and love.”

“I don't like bare floors.”