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.
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.
No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.
Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
Love dies only when growth stops.
an artist is always seeking revelation.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
Love alone could waken love.
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