I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and… — Han Suyin Copy Share
People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds. — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
These ways to make people buy were strange and new to us, and many bought for the sheer pleasure at first of holding in the hand and talking of something new. And once this was done, it was like opium, we could no longer do without this new bauble, and thus, though we hated the foreigners and though we knew… — Han Suyin Copy Share
“And that's what Mahudin calls our thought control...an induced hypnosis of inferiority, destroying confidence and initiative, prolonging the period of tutelage which we would… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal. — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
