Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

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.

We must learn to do economic work from all who know how, no matter who they are. We must esteem them as teachers, learning from them respectfully and conscientiously. We must not pretend to know when we do not know.

Deaths have benefits. They can fertilise the ground.

A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

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.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.