Chinese Quotes - Page 12

• For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a "Heavenly Mandate". If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people.

  Andre Vltchek

  Party, Past, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When Chinese people want liberal reforms, they are delivered. When they want more Communism and an epic fight against corruption, like now, China's government immediately reacts. It is powerful and democratic, although a very specific and complex arrangement.

  Andre Vltchek

  Powerful, Fighting, Epic

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• Now, the Chinese people are outraged and they are sending clear signals to Beijing: "do not succumb to the West." "If you do, our nation will suffer immensely, and the rest of the world will turn to ashes."

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Suffering, Ashes

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• Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, West, Fool

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• Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Sick, Imperialism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Chinese government would yield to the pressure from its people: it would be forced to give orders to fight - to defend its motherland!

  Andre Vltchek

  Fighting, Yield, Government

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• Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, West, Martyr

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think something like three-quarters of American currency is held abroad, by drug dealers, by tax evaders, Russians and Chinese. Other people think that they want to protect themselves against their own currency going down. When you have 75% of the currency and even more of the high-denomination $100 bills held abroad, you wonder whether these are people we really want to pay. If you get rid of the $100 bills, its foreign holders will be the main losers.

  Michael Hudson

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.

  Michael Hudson

  Safe Haven, Thinking, Russia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Directing, you have to put yourself in a certain state, it’s all about the energy you have and the energy you transmit to people, to the actors, to the crew. It’s peculiar. There’s a Chinese saying: “The first part that rots is the head.” It really does. I’ve seen it.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Doe, Firsts

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

  Amanda Palmer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• When I was two years old, I heard about his [Dalai Lama] flight from Tibet. Being very little, I said, "Oh, good Tibetans, bad Chinese." Those were the black-and-white ways that I thought.

  Pico Iyer

  Black And White, Years, Two Year Olds

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the same. And as he pointed out during the recent disturbances, the Chinese are suffering under a tough government much as the Tibetans are.

  Pico Iyer

  Government, Views, Suffering

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• I would now put all my heart with the Tibetan people and the Tibetan cause, but not at the expense of the Chinese, and not say that Tibetans are good and Chinese are bad. And in my own life, I hope I would learn to be a little less full of right and wrongs, and a little more able to see everything as a potential right.

  Pico Iyer

  Heart, People, Littles

  Interview with Felicia M. Tomasko, layoga.com. April 26, 2008.

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• Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, Class, Government

  "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Judging, Goes On, Dutch

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I love strong flavors too. Like I don't mind if it looks clean and clear and you know what you are eating if it has Italian, Chinese or Japanese flavor I love them all.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Strong, Italian, Mind

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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• We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Long Ago, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.

  Dalai Lama

  People, Violence, Desperate

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Unique, Extinction

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence.

  Dalai Lama

  Government, Self, Independence

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet.

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Government, Self

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Track, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My understanding of Chinese history is limited. So far, I have only scratched its surface; I wish I could find out more.

  Ai Weiwei

  Understanding, Wish, Surface

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Fake, Culture

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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