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 More Quotes by Sun Yat-sen More Quotes From Sun Yat-sen An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom. Sun Yat-sen individualtoo-muchshould-have To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy. Sun Yat-sen easyactioncharacter 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 knivesmenpeople Trust is earned by many deeds, and lost by only one. Sun Yat-sen deedslost Of the people, by the people, for the people. Sun Yat-sen democracies-havepatriotic4th-of-july The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! Sun Yat-sen comradelast-wordsrevolution 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 perseveranceloyaltyteaching The whole world is one family. Sun Yat-sen vedasfailurefamily 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 constructiondifficultcountry To understand is difficult; to act is easy. Sun Yat-sen difficulteasy 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 sufferingclasswar 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 progressclasswar Only powerful people have liberty. Sun Yat-sen libertypowerfulpeople 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 politicalgovernmentmilitary I am a Christian; God sent me to fight evil for my people. Jesus was a revolutionist; so am I. Sun Yat-sen i-ammegodpeople The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance. Sun Yat-sen keyperseveranceactionsuccess China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience. Sun Yat-sen goodgood-teacherpoliticsteacher Our position is extremely perilous; if we do not earnestly promote nationalism and weld together our four hundred millions into a strong nation, we face a tragedy - the loss of our country and the destruction of our race. To ward off this danger, we must espouse nationalism and employ the national spirit to save the country. Sun Yat-sen nationfacestrongtogether We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize our political power, for only when we Han are in control politically do we have a nation. Sun Yat-sen nationpoliticalpowerpeople I have passed English medical examinations in Hong Kong... In my youth, I experienced overseas studies. The languages of the West, its literature, its political science, its customs, its mathematics, its geography, its physics and chemistry - all these I have had the chance to study. Sun Yat-sen medicalmathematicsyouthscience
