Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 4

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• People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

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  Country, Simple, People

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• A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

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  Men, Food Banks, Poverty

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• men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

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  Men, Forbidden, Nations

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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  Faith, Kindness, Angel

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• an artist is always seeking revelation.

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  Artist, Youth, Revelations

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.159, Open Road Media

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• A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Fate

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

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  Yield, Wind, Civilization

  "China, Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, Ch. 1, 1972.

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• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

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  Kindness, Memorable, History

  "Buck: The Mother of All Pearls" by Randee Mia Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2015.

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• starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

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  World, Unnecessary, Hunger

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

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  Race, Evil, Diversity

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.1.

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• Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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  Freedom, Men, Ties

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• The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

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  Giving Up, Men, White

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• No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

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  Believe, Writing, Sea

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• Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

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  Country, Strong, Profound

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• Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

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  Long, Euthanasia, Smooth

  The Child Who Never Grew Ch. 2

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• Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

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  Essence, Spirit, Formal

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• An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Laughing

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• A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

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  Heart, Men, Unity

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• Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.

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  Blessing, Love Is, Alive

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• Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.

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  Men, Debt, Lost

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• Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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  Communication, Self, Expression

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• It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

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  People, Justice, Diversity

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• The rich are always afraid.

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  Rich

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

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  Men, Years, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.323, Open Road Media

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• It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

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  Education, Children, Teaching

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