Chen Duxiu’s famous sayings are as follows:

1. There are two birthplaces of world civilization: one is the scientific research laboratory, and the other is the prison. We young people must be determined to go to prison as soon as we leave the research laboratory, and enter the research laboratory as soon as we leave the prison. This is the most noble and beautiful life in life. The civilization that occurs from these two places is the real civilization, the civilization with life and value.

2. Democracy is not a concept of any class, but something that took hundreds of years of struggle for the entire human race to achieve. Proletarian democracy is not an empty term; its specific content, like bourgeois democracy, requires that all citizens have freedom of assembly, association, speech, publication, and strike. The state is the one who protects the rights of the people and seeks the happiness of the people. If this is not done, the country will survive with no glory and perish with no regrets.

3. What we love is a country where the people use their patriotism to resist oppression, not a country where the government uses the people's patriotism to oppress others. What we love is a country where the country seeks happiness for the people, not a country where the people make sacrifices for the country.

4. Youth is to society as fresh and lively cells are to the human body. Metabolism, the old and decayed things are always on the way to natural elimination, and the fresh and lively things are based on the position of space and the life of time.

5. The merits of religion are to overcome the weak and encourage good, which is not without benefit to the people; however, its superstitious belief in divine authority blocks people's wisdom, which is a shortcoming.

6. Westerners take the rule of law as their foundation and practical benefits as their foundation, so they start with the villain and end with the gentleman; the Chinese take emotions as their foundation and take empty words as their foundation, so they all start with the gentleman. End up as a villain!

7. Youth is like early spring, like the morning sun, like the sprouting of hundreds of flowers, like the new hair of a sharp knife, it is the most precious period of life. Youth are still fresh and lively cells in society.

8. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. If you don’t learn, you will perish.

9. Completely overthrow the previous opinions of our generation.

10. Youth is to society as fresh and lively cells are to the human body. Metabolism, the old and decayed things are always on the way to natural elimination, and the fresh and lively things are based on the position of space and the life of time.

11. Democracy is not a concept of any class, but is achieved through hundreds of years of struggle by the entire human race. Proletarian democracy is not an empty term; its specific content, like bourgeois democracy, requires that all citizens have freedom of assembly, association, speech, publication, and strike. The state is the one who protects the rights of the people and seeks the happiness of the people. If this is not done, the country will survive with no glory and perish with no regrets.

12. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat. If you don’t learn, you will perish.

13. Life is like sailing against the current. If you don’t advance, you will retreat.

14. Westerners take the rule of law as their foundation and practical benefits as their foundation, so they start with the villain and end with the gentleman; the Chinese take emotions as their foundation and take fictitious writing as their foundation, so they all start with the gentleman. End up as a villain.

15. There is no bottom line in learning, so don’t hesitate to move forward.

16. Youth is like early spring, like the morning sun, like the sprouting of hundreds of flowers, like the new hair of a sharp knife, it is the most precious period of life. Youth are still fresh and lively cells in society.

17. In this world, when the great powers stand side by side, they all compete with each other by relying on the virtues and intelligence of their citizens. The fate of their rise and fall will not be determined by war. Although there are martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for the country, nothing can be done to save them.

18. Science and democracy are the two main driving forces for the progress of human society.

19. There are two birthplaces of world civilization: one is the scientific research laboratory, and the other is the prison. We young people must be determined to go to prison as soon as we leave the research laboratory, and enter the research laboratory as soon as we leave the prison. This is the most noble and beautiful life in life. The civilization that occurs from these two places is the real civilization, the civilization with life and value.

20. What we love is a country where the people show their patriotism to resist being oppressed, not a country where the government uses the people's patriotism to oppress others. What we love is a country where the country seeks happiness for the people, not a country where the people make sacrifices for the country.