“God—if there is a God—would not choose one man above another or one people above another.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja proljeća koja nikad ne presahnu” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“Brave young American men climbed the rugged slopes of Korean mountains and fought in homesickness and desperate weariness for the sake of a people… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
“All scientific effort must now be concentrated in the area of defence (sic). We have learned our lesson. We, the most civilized of people,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
