As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

The officers do not beat the men; the officers and men receive equal treatment. Soldiers are free to hold meetings and speak out. Trivial formalities have been done away with and the accounts are open for all to inspect.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.

We should support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.