If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

Communists should set an example in study; at all times they should be pupils of the masses as well as their teachers.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

Civilize the mind but make savage the body.

Communists must always go into the why's and wherefore's of anything, use their own heads and carefully think over whether or not it corresponds to reality and is really well founded; on no account should they follow blindly and encourage slavishness.

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.

Don't wait untill problems pile up and cause a lot of trouble before trying to solve them. Leaders must march ahead the movement, not lag behind it.