Pearl S. Buck Quotations | Page 3

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.

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.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

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

The rich are always afraid.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.