You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world. Lu Xun More Quotes by Lu Xun More Quotes From Lu Xun Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears. Lu Xun pathpeopleway Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood. Lu Xun inklyingblood The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. Lu Xun painmistakepast Imagine an iron house without windows, absolutely indestructible, with many people fast asleep inside who will soon die of suffocation. But you know since they will die in their sleep, they will not feel the pain of death. Now if you cry aloud to wake a few of the lighter sleepers, making those unfortunate few suffer the agony of irrevocable death, do you think you are doing them a good turn? Lu Xun painsleepthinking If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere! Lu Xun speaks-outfightingmen I have a dream that I will fulfill. And nothing else will distract me from my path. Lu Xun pathdream I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. Lu Xun earthmenway The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers. Lu Xun things-in-lifedreampeople Discontent is the wheel that moves people forward. Lu Xun wheelspeoplemoving The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. Lu Xun executiontyrantsgovernment Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. Lu Xun pathpeopleway Since someone ate crabs, others must have eaten spiders as well. However, they were not tasty. So afterwards, people stopped eating them. These people also deserve our heartfelt gratitude. Lu Xun heartfeltgratitudepeople True, we must dare look things in the face before we dare think, speak, act, or assume responsibility. If we dare not even look, what else are we good for? Lu Xun responsibilitylooksthinking True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going. Lu Xun painmenpeople To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. Lu Xun conclusionfaultstime But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. Lu Xun reformculturepeople Trust only him who doubts. Lu Xun trustdoubt Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk. Lu Xun drunkprejudicethinking I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert. Lu Xun fightingrealmen But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house. Lu Xun destroyingironhouse
