Controversial Sayings
6,263 sayings found from the Modern era
Mathematicians my flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
In the very beginning of science, the parsons, who managed things then, Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in the likeness o' men; Till Commerce arose and at length some men of exceptional power Supplanted both demons and gods by the atoms…
It was clear that in the United States there was a development not of the best, but of the middle and worst sides of European civilization; the notorious general voting, the tendency to politics... all the same as in Europe. A new dawn is not to be s…
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.
No one nor anything can silence me.
Doctor, you have science, I have faith.
The greatest force is common blood. The Chinese belong to the yellow race because they come from the blood stock of the yellow race.
Mankind is divided into five races. The yellow and white races are relatively strong and intelligent. Because the other races are feeble and stupid, they are being exterminated by the white race. Only the yellow race competes with the white race. Thi…
We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation.
We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
Our position is extremely perilous; if we do not earnestly promote nationalism and weld together our four hundred millions into a strong nation, we face a tragedy - the loss of our country and the destruction of our race.
The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand.
If, when we achieve the aims of our revolution, the Manchus do not oppose us or do us harm, there will be no reason for us to fight against them.
Formerly, the battle-cry of the revolution was the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty. Henceforth, it will be the overthrow of the intervention of foreign imperialism in China.
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
Revolution is usually a bloody affair. Our Revolution of 1911 did not shed much blood because our people are a peace-loving people. This peace-loving quality is the greatest virtue of the Chinese.
Everyone knows that the Russian revolution came after China, but its success preceded China. Its extraordinary achievements are truly unprecedented in the history of world revolution. The reason why it has reached this point is actually due to the pe…
Our Chinese nation must crystalise into a solid, rocklike body of national defense, needless to say, no individual may enjoy the 'freedom' of a loose grain of sand. …[I]n the relation between the individual and the state, whether during or after the …
If China's adult citizens cannot unite on a large scale, our unity cannot long endure, and we shall experience the humiliation and shame of being 'a pan of loose sand' [一盤散沙] and be laughed at for our 'five minutes of boiling blood' [五分鐘的熱血].
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alo…