Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

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

Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times in Chinese history... It's best if half the population is left, next best one-third.

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.

Women hold up half the sky.