"You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world."

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Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Selected Essays of Master Lu Xun”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

Lu Xun

#Reform Quotes #World Quotes #Existential Quotes

“Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.”
“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.”
“We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.”
“If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.”
“I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.”
“I travel to work on my motorcycle, so it's jeans, boots and a brown Aero leather jacket that weighs as much as I do. If it were black, it would seem like I've got a Brando idea going on, which I don't.”
“I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.”

Source : "The Way it Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin".
“The fire doesn't make you what you are; it reveals what you were.”

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