Sun Yat-sen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Character #Action #Easy
An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Too Much #Individual #Should
The whole world is one family.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Family #World
In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Country #Construction #Difficult
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.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#War #Class #Suffering
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
Revolution is not a dinner party.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Party #Dinner #Revolution
The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on!
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Revolution #Last Words #Comrade
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
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
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.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Loyalty #Perseverance #Teaching
Of the people, by the people, for the people,
-- Sun Yat-sen

#People
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
Only powerful people have liberty.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Powerful #People #Liberty
To understand is difficult; to act is easy.
-- Sun Yat-sen

#Easy #Difficult

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