"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a..." - 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!”

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

“There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.”

“The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.”

“Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.”

“Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.”

“The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.”

“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”

“This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.”