Top 29 Quotes About Sun Yat Sen
#1. [Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ... combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
#2. Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of love and sacrifice, carried on his revolutionary work for forty years and brought about at last the liberation of the Chinese people.
#3. The idea of universal brotherhood is innate in the catholic nature of Chinese thought; it was the dominant concept of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whom events have proved time and again to be not a visionary but one of the world's greatest realists.
#4. Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.
#5. If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.
#6. For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
#7. The world you acquire and partake in is purely driven by the choices taken.
#8. Only powerful people have liberty.
#9. To understand is difficult; to act is easy.
#10. Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.
#11. Revolution is not a dinner party.
#12. It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind.
#13. I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.
#14. In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
#15. The World is for All
#16. When we undertake a task, we should not falter from first to last until the task is accomplished; if we fail, we should not begrudge our lives as a sacrifice-this is what we mean by loyalty. The ancient teaching of loyalty meant sometimes death.
#17. Since coming to Mythos, I'd almost been run through with a sword and mauled to death by a killer kitty cat. Dirty looks didn't faze me anymore.
#18. At the Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X.
#19. To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.
#20. An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
#21. To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.
#22. The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit ... they are just a heap of loose sand ... Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.
#23. Today's events are reminiscent of the Old Testament story of how the Israelites demanded a king over God's objection. They believed that a king would give them peace and security. The results proved otherwise.
#24. The whole world is one family.
#25. So (if) some cracker come and tell you 'Well, my mother and father blood go back to the Mayflower,' you better hold your pocket. That ain't nothing to be proud of. That means their forefathers was crooks.
#26. Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.
#27. The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!
#28. Only falsehood wraps itself in a flood of words. Truth is brief.
#29. I wish I'd made 'Warrior,' and I wish I'd made 'Drive.'
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