Books Quote by Karen Armstrong

“I do not know that the Chinese system is any worse; there is a limit to the evil one despot alone can do, and…

— Naomi Novik

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another…

— Jung Chang

“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“If American misjudgments and actions that evolved into human tragedies—i.e., racism, sexism, and other bigotries—are guiding lights, the Chinese leadership must ultimately yield its…

— Patrick Mendis

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

— Salman Rushdie

“Amazingly, prison sentences for murderers have now been lessened in at least two cases because it was argued that the criminal, having the “warrior…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“There are very subtle shades of violence, I can assure you. A civilization that renounces the possibility of resorting to violence in thought or…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

— Matthew Reilly

“Speak Up Humanity..Rise and Speak Up Against China's ABUSE & CRIMES Against Tibet! If Humanity Loses Tibet...It Will Lose it's Heart. Unfortunately...It Will Be…

— Timothy Pina

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese…

— Anonymous

“It is a weary lament to lay most acts of violence and aggression, from the strictly local to the truly global, squarely at the…

— Bryan Sykes