Sun Yat-sen Quotes

• To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Character, Action, Easy

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• Of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Sun Yat-sen

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Democracies Have

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• If the idea of revolution is to win out, it must be through political enlightenment. It is useless to try to impose it by force of arms.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Winning, Ideas, Political

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• Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Deeds, Lost

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• An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

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  Should Have, Too Much, Individual

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• The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!

  Sun Yat-sen

  Revolution, Last Words, Comrade

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• The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Men, Knives, People

  "China as a Heap of Loose Sand" (1924)

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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.

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  Loyalty, Perseverance, Teaching

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• The whole world is one family.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Family, Failure, Vedas

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• To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Easy, Difficult

  "Great Britain and the East", Vol. 61, Issues 1727-1742, p. 19, 1944.

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• Only powerful people have liberty.

  Sun Yat-sen

  Powerful, People, Liberty

  "The Economist", p. 67, October 8, 2011.

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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.

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  War, Class, Suffering

  "Capital and the State". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1924.

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• Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

  Sun Yat-sen

  War, Class, Progress

  Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (1928). “San Min Chu I”

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• In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.

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  Country, Construction, Difficult

  "Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1936.

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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

  Military, Government, Political

  "The Three Phases of National Reconstruction". Essay by Sun Yat-sen, 1918.

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