Quotes by Sun Yat-Sen - Page 2

We should use our old moral values and our love of peace as the foundation of national reconstruction and look forward to the day when we shall become leaders in world reconstruction upon lines of international justice and good will.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
International
Lines
Moral
Moral Values
Our Love
Reconstruction
Love Peace Good
Forward
Leaders
National
Shall
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We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Nationality
Royal
Nature Way Human
Developed
Forces
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The India-China intercourse began from the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Both interacted with each other peacefully and conducted scholarly and ideological exchanges. Both loved and admired each other; never had there been a slight clash.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Clash
Dynasty
Eastern
Ideological
Intercourse
Scholarly
Admired
Exchanges
Peacefully
Slight
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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.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Loyalty
Mean
Perseverance
Teaching
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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.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Allowing
Nationalism
Political Power
Power Political People
Discriminating
Seize
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We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Becoming
Notion
Republicanism
Revolution
Imperial
In The Past
Revolutionaries
Overthrow
Peasant
Rebels
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Which, autocracy or democracy, is really better suited to modern China? If we base our judgment upon the intelligence and the ability of the Chinese people, we come to the conclusion that the sovereignty of the people would be far more suitable for us.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Ability
Autocracy
China
Conclusion
Democracy
Judgment
Modern
Sovereignty
Suitable
Base
Chinese People
Far
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After the Manchu government had carried on wars with foreign nations and had been defeated, China was forced to sign many unequal treaties. Foreign nations are still using these treaties to bind China, and as a result, China fails at whatever she attempts.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
China
Defeated
Nations
Treaties
Attempts
Bind
Carried
Wars
Fails
Forced
Result
Sign
Unequal
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Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Capitalist
Class Warfare
Industrialization
Seeds
Social Justice
Warfare
Adopt
Ignore
Sow
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At present, England, America, France, Italy, and Japan constitute the so-called 'Big Five.' Even with the rise of Germany and Soviet Russia, the world has only seven Powers. When China becomes strong, she can easily win first place in the Council of Nations.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Council
France
Germany
Japan
Russia
Soviet
Rise
World Win America
Constitute
First Place
Italy
Powers
So-Called
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At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Ocean
Acquire
Fathom
First Time
Islands
Thirteen
Vastness
West
Wonder
Accompanied
Eager
Hawaiian
Mysteries
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What problem does Pan-Asianism attempt to solve? The problem is how to terminate the sufferings of the Asiatic peoples and how to resist the aggression of the powerful European countries. In a word, Pan-Asianism represents the cause of the oppressed Asiatic peoples.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Aggression
European Countries
Oppressed
Powerful
Problem
Solve
Attempt
Cause
Countries
European
Word
Resist
Represents
Sufferings
Terminate
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In my International Development Scheme, I propose that the profits of this industrial development should go first to pay the interest and principal of foreign capital invested in it; second to give high wages to labor; and third to improve or extend the machinery of production.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Labor
Machinery
Principal
Propose
Wages
Capital
Extend
Scheme
Industrial
Invested
Profits
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I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Chance
Medical
Science
Chemistry
Customs
Geography
Hong Kong
Literature
Physics
Political Science
West
Youth
English
Languages
Examinations
Experienced
Overseas
Passed
Studies
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A political revolution must proceed simultaneously with the nationalist revolution. When we overthrow the Manchu regime, we will achieve not only a nationalist revolution against the Manchus but also a political revolution against monarchy. They are not to be carried out at two different times.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Achieve
Different Times
Monarchy
Revolution
Carried
Nationalist
Overthrow
Proceed
Regime
Simultaneously
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Those who wish to promote the welfare of the people should advance in solidarity with them and select the path most suitable for them. Since the history of our people is different from that of the people of the West, the steps that the two peoples choose to take in order to advance must also be different.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Select
Solidarity
Steps
Suitable
Welfare
Advance
Be Different
Our People
Promote
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I began to realize that, in spite of great achievements in wealth and military prowess, the great powers of Europe have not yet succeeded in providing the greatest happiness of the vast majority of the people; and that the reformers in these European countries were working hard for a new social revolution.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Europe
European Countries
Majority
Military
Providing
Revolution
Social
Spite
Wealth
Achievements
Greatest
Began
Countries
Vast
Working
Great Achievements
Greatest Happiness
Powers
Realize
Succeeded
Vast Majority
Working Hard
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One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Knowledge
Providing
Specialty
Stupidity
Talent
All-Around
Useful
Broad
Talents
Develop
Narrow
Schools
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Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Characteristics
Civilization
Japan
Remains
Western
Western Civilization
Acquainted
Hawk
Orient
Tower
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All my comrades must continue to exert their efforts according to my 'Programme of National Reconstruction,' 'Outline of Reconstruction,' the 'Three Principles of the People,' and the 'Manifesto' issued by the First National Congress of our Party, and strive on earnestly for the consummation of the end we have in view.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Principles
Reconstruction
Strive
According
Comrades
Earnestly
Efforts
Exert
Manifesto
Outline
Programme
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The government should help and guide the weak and small racial groups within its national boundaries toward self-determination and self-government. It should offer resistance to foreign aggression, and simultaneously, it should revise foreign treaties in order to restore our equality and independence among the nations.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Equality
Independence
Aggression
Boundaries
Groups
Order
Resistance
Self Determination
Treaties
Weak
Within
Among
Foreign
Guide
Small
National
Offer
Racial
Restore
Revise
Simultaneously
Toward
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If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Loss
Political Power
Basis
Compete
Freely
Shield
Stood
Successfully
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It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Government
Military
Political
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Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Ancient
China
Decades
Effort
Exploitation
Golden
Golden Rule
Late
Sage
Suffering
Witness
Aspirations
Bold
Chinese People
Cruel
Futile
Grieves
Rule
Save
Shun
Slaves
The Golden Rule
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In antiquity, agriculture and industry depended completely on human labor; but now, with the development of natural forces that human labor cannot match, agriculture and industry have fallen completely into the hands of the capitalists. The greater the amount of capital, the more abundant the resources that can be utilized.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Amount
Antiquity
Greater
Labor
Resources
Abundant
Capital
Capitalists
Depended
Forces
Match
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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. To ward off this danger, we must espouse nationalism and employ the national spirit to save the country.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Danger
Destruction
Hundred
Loss
Millions
Position
Race
Tragedy
Earnestly
Employ
Extremely
National
Perilous
Promote
Save
Ward
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The Russians as a people had no point of conflict with the Germans; the conflict came from their respective imperialistic policies. When the Russian people learned that imperialism was historically wrong, they set up a revolution in 1917 and overthrew imperialism at home. They then negotiated for peace separately with Germany.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Conflict
Germany
No Point
Revolution
Germans
Historically
Imperialistic
Policies
Respective
Russian People
Separately
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We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards government, but yet the majority of people are without vision. We who have prevision must lead them and guide them into the right way if we want to escape the confusions of Western democracy and not follow in the tracks of the West.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Right Way
Western
Confusions
Escape
Guide
Tracks
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China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Experience
Friends
Government
Teacher
Awareness
China
Educated
Impart
Republican
Revolutionary
Schooling
Tutor
Started
Child
Advanced
Chinese People
Good Friends
Properly
Surrounded
Token
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China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
War
Class
Suffering
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I am keenly aware that the wealth and power of the European nations are the result not only of their having ships and powerful guns, strong fortresses and formidable troops but also because their people can fully employ their talents, their land can be fully utilized, their natural resources can be fully tapped, and their goods can freely flow.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Flow
Formidable
Goods
Land
Nations
Natural Resources
Powerful
Resources
Ships
Troops
Wealth
Aware
Guns
Talents
Employ
European
European Nations
Freely
Fully
Result
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When the war was in progress, England and France agreed wholeheartedly with the Fourteen Points. As soon as the war was won, England, France, and Italy tried to frustrate Wilson's program because it was in conflict with their imperialist policies. As a consequence, the Peace Treaty was one of the most unequal treaties ever negotiated in history.
Sun Yat-Sen / Politician
Conflict
Consequence
Fourteen
Treaties
Wholeheartedly
Wilson
Agreed
Frustrate
War Peace History
Imperialist
Italy
Points
Unequal
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