Sun Yat-sen citations (7 citations)

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Sun Yat-sen: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Capital and the State (1924)

“Only powerful people have liberty.”

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As quoted in "The Economist" (8 October 2011), p. 67

“In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.”

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Chung-shan Ch'üan-shu (Zhongshan Quanshu), vol. II (1936)

“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.”

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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.”

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China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)

“To understand is difficult; to act is easy.”

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As quoted in Great Britain and the East, Vol. 61, Issues 1727-1742 (1944), p. 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=94AyAQAAIAAJ&q=%22To+understand+is+difficult;+to+act+is+easy%22&dq=%22To+understand+is+difficult;+to+act+is+easy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiey5eF27fXAhWMHpQKHS3JCYAQ6AEILDAB