Quotes About Foot Binding

#1. The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

Dean Acheson

#3. One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

Ken Livingstone

#4. Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Mary Jo Putney

#5. I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.

Edward Hirsch

#6. When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. He seemed about to speak; then, as if he could not give sufficient weight to the words while we walked, he stopped and faced me.

Anthony Powell

#8. Connection was always enough. Not touching. Not talking. Just a feeling that in the world your not alone.

Donal O'Callaghan

#9. He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

Heinrich Heine

#10. Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frosting intact, haul out the psychic calculator and start tinkering with the budget.

Caroline Knapp

#11. Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Henry Ward Beecher