China Quotes

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day. (Philip Larkin)
Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade. View quote
Zhu Rongji
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. View quote
Hu Shih
There are some bored foreigners, with full stomachs, who have nothing better to do than point fingers at us... First, China doesn't export Revolution; second, China doesn't export hunger and poverty; third, China doesn't come and cause you headaches, what more is there to be said? View quote
Xi Jinping
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. View quote
Deng Xiaoping
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression. View quote
James A. Michener
If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan. View quote
Kim Dae-jung
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. View quote
André Malraux
I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union. (Terry Eagleton)
On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. View quote
Andy Stern
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
China and India are close neighbours linked by mountains and rivers and the Chinese and Indian peoples have enjoyed friendly exchanges for thousands of years. View quote
Li Peng
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. View quote
Li Peng
Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. View quote
Rick Larsen
China is referred to as the ‘dragon' and India as an ‘elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a ‘beehive'. View quote
Rahul Gandhi
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will. View quote
Steven Soderbergh
While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces. (Douglas MacArthur)
While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that appeasement but begets new and bloodier war. It points to no single instance where this end has justified that means, where appeasement has led to more than a sham peace. Like blackmail, it lays the basis for new and successively greater demands until, as in blackmail, violence becomes the only other alternative. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Far from New England's blustering shore, New England's worm her hulk shall bore, And sink her in the Indian seas, Twine, wine, and hides, and China teas. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew