Tiananmen Square Protests Quotes

#1. He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Lee Kuan Yew

#2. As Christians we are here to affirm the supreme value of direct sharing, of immediate encounter -not machine to machine, but person to person, face to face.

Kallistos Ware

#3. Nana glanced at Ben. I think your mom has catepillars in her ears. She keeps repeating everything I say like she can't hear me.

Nicholas Sparks

#4. While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#5. No where in 'humpty dumpty' did it say he was an egg. Maybe your inability to think outside of what others have taught you is what's keeping you from putting him together again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#6. Karma is not elitist.

Aarti Patel

#7. It would in retrospect appear to be a stop on a narrative path that was inevitable, but this is only because most events, most paths, feel inevitable in retrospect.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. Now that I have conquered social anxiety disorder, I find pleasure in fans approaching me.

Ricky Williams

#9. Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

Pankaj Mishra

#10. North Korean students and intellectuals didn't dare to stage protests as their counterparts in other Communist countries did. There was no Prague Spring or Tiananmen Square. The level of repression in North Korea was so great that no organized resistance could take root.

Barbara Demick