Ancestor Quote by Alan Dundes

When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no…

— Anonymous

One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military…

— Takeda Shingen

A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit…

— Confucius

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

— Zengzi

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the…

— Edward Gibbon

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

— Confucius

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest…

— Confucius

One should put forth great effort in matters of learning. One should read books concerning military matters, and direct his attention exclusively to the…

— Kato Kiyomasa

I suspected [Richard Nixon] was very pro-Pakistan. Or rather I knew that the Americans had always been in favor of Pakistan - not so…

— Indira Gandhi

The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have…

— Walter Kirn

Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as…

— Anonymous

“… about sixty thousand Indians and half-breeds… absolute savages… our inspectors occasionally visit… otherwise, no communication whatever with the civilized world… still preserve their…

— Aldous Huxley