At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.
Sun Yat-SenRead
It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.
Interpretation
The quote envisions a harmonious coexistence of capitalism and socialism in China's economic future.
Sun Yat-Sen suggests that instead of opposing each other, capitalism and socialism can coexist and complement one another in China's development. By harmonizing these two economic systems, he believes that China can progress toward a more evolved society, benefiting from the strengths of both systems.
In practice
In a discussion on economic systems during a conference on global development.
At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.
After the Manchu government had carried on wars with foreign nations and had been defeated, China was forced to sign many unequal treaties. Foreign nations are still using these treaties to bind China, and as a result, China fails at whatever she attempts.
What problem does Pan-Asianism attempt to solve? The problem is how to terminate the sufferings of the Asiatic peoples and how to resist the aggression of the powerful European countries. In a word, Pan-Asianism represents the cause of the oppressed Asiatic peoples.
How can human rights be ever developed for the majority of Chinese people? The only way is to organize. To organize workers, peasants, merchants, industrialists, and students at the grassroots level.
At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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