Han Suyin Quotes - Page 2

• Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

  Han Suyin

  Race, Way, World

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• And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

  Han Suyin

  Kindness, Stronger, World

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• Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

  Han Suyin

  History, Way, Flow

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• History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.

  Han Suyin

  Wall, Ignorance, Past

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• The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.

  Han Suyin

  Wine, Soul, Doe

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