. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that the influence of the bourgeoisie and of the intellectuals who come from the old society will remain in our country for a long time to come, and so will their class ideology. If this is not sufficiently understood, or is not understood at all, the gravest mistakes will be made and the necessity of waging the struggle in the ideological field will be ignored.

We Communists are like seeds and the people are like the soil. Wherever we go, we must unite with the people, take root and blossom among them.

In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class.

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.