East Asia Quotes

• The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

  George Orwell

  War, 1984 Movie, Meant To Be

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• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

  Peter Agre

  School, Epidemics, Asia

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• There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United States do not do that, and for good reason. We need a careful process for admissions that take all sorts of factors into account: different intellectual strengths, artistic expression, economic standing, social background, ethnicity, regional representation and designs a class as a balanced whole.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Expression, Ethnicity, Class

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• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Europe, People, Goal

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• I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

  Ronan Farrow

  Sibling, America, Long

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• America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Communication, America, Silence

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• In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  Michael Moore

  Real, War, Ignorance

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", 1984.

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• (They) were responsible for spreading the Buddhist religion throughout India and East Asia.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, India, East

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• I worked on human rights projects in Haiti, Cameroon, and East Asia, and the bigger ones tended to do with agriculture. My role was to make sure that there was equity that remained at the base of those projects, with the workers. I had a couple of different lives.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Couple, Rights, Agriculture

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• A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  George Orwell

  War, Ignorance, Past

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• Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Wings, America

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• Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  War, Ideas, Police

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• East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people.

  Peter L. Berger

  People, East, Asia

  Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There are many reasons that universities in East Asia have not reached the positions that they had hoped for. After all, we must remember that modern East Asia did not begin with Confucius. In fact the experience of modern education in East Asia is relatively short and granted that time scale, many universities are doing fine.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Asia, Facts, East

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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• Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.

  Hassanal Bolkiah

  Easter, Kingdoms, Asia

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• In opening China, the English have secured their presence in East Asia. If we don't commit more resources to get into Southeast Asia now, they or Germany, or even little Belgium might find it ripe for the taking.

  Jules Ferry

  Asia, Germany, East

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• The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, America, Inability

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• But, before we in America critique East Asia, we must also recognize that we are - unfortunately - taking on some of the same characteristics. Getting in the top institutions has become far more difficult and the value placed on one school over another in terms of education and careers has been much exaggerated.

  Henry Rosovsky

  School, Careers, America

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• There are times when the gospel just seems to be powerfully at work in a nation, and thousands upon thousands are converted. If you think about what has happened in Latin America, Africa and East Asia all in the last hundred years, it is breathtaking. We have seen an expansion of the gospel as we have never seen before in the history of the church.

  Mark Dever

  Latin, Thinking, Years

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• The defensive perimeter [of the United States in East Asia] runs along the Aleutians to Japan and then goes to the Ryukyus.

  Dean Acheson

  Running, War, Japan

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• At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.

  John Hersey

  Girl, Morning, Past

  John Hersey (1946). “Hiroshima”

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• East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

  William C. Kirby

  War, Thinking, East

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• Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.

  Annette Lu

  Democracy, Taiwan, East

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