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Sun Yat-sen
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“It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.”
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Three Phases of National Reconstruction (1918)
“The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.”
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)
“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Capital and the State (1924)
“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II (1936)
“To understand is difficult; to act is easy.”
Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) first seen 1727 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Great Britain and the East, Vol. 61, Issues 1727-1742 (1944), p. 19