Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we... by Pearl S. Buck

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

Pearl S. Buck

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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

born humans enough

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

diversity heaven country

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to... by Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

idealism-and-realism empty hope

Love alone could waken love. by Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love.

alone-in-love love

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped fo... by Pearl S. Buck

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

democracy stills

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving. by Pearl S. Buck

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

giving

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and... by Pearl S. Buck

Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

anger mind giving

It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

teaching education children

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

india race simple

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon... by Pearl S. Buck

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

raised good-will arrogance

No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

principles education brain

For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

real men country

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

jewels air water

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

temples men thinking

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

acceptance roots joy

nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

daughter sex son

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

pride humility heart

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is a... by Pearl S. Buck

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

boiling-over united-states ideas

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

men history past

the heart never grows old. by Pearl S. Buck

the heart never grows old.

grows heart