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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
Explore more quotes by Pearl S. Buck
"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
"Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman."
"Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung"
"Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers."
"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."
"It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late."
"Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself"
"The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool."
"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."
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