Wei Jingsheng Quotes

#1. We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

Wei Jingsheng

#2. There are no problems - just endless possibilities.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Every sacred soul has in a sacred body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

Wei Jingsheng

#5. And when we kissed in the desert, maybe it started for the wrong reasons ... but it ended with the right ones.

Brynna Gabrielson

#6. You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Corrie Ten Boom

#7. Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

Wei Jingsheng

#8. Sometimes the waves come and wash away the sand so we can see the rock that make us stumble.

Hamilton C. Burger

#9. If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Jason Silva

#10. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.

Philip Yancey

#11. I don't wish my career on anyone.

John Entwistle

#12. Historic justice is due to all characters. Who would not vindicate Henry the Eighth or Charles the Second, if found to be falsely traduced? Why then not Richard the Third?

Horace Walpole

#13. Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.

Chogyam Trungpa

#14. I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Agnes Varda

#15. Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

Wei Jingsheng

#16. Making poems was a way of loving things, I had always thought, of preserving them, of living moments twice; or more than that, it was a way of living more fully, of bestowing on experience a richer meaning. But

Garth Greenwell

#17. It doesn't matter if you have something greater to say per say, just enjoy what you're doing.

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