In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

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

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

Our stand is that of the proletariat and of the masses. For members of the Communist Party, this means keeping to the stand of the Party, keeping to Party spirit and Party policy.