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

Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent.

We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.