"All the rest of the world uses..." - Quote by Mao Zedong
All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!
More by Mao Zedong
“People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!”
“At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.”
“The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.”
More on Language
“The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.”
“The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.”
“Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.”