
“Let them burn and we shall clap our hands.”
[Our Vietnam: the war, 1954–1975, Langguth, A. J., 2000] p.216. Referring to the immolation of Buddhist monks including Thích Quảng Đức in 1963.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 592.
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“I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them.”
Speech and interview at the University of Michigan, 1902. http://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-159/wsc-a-midnight-interview-1902
Early career years (1898–1929)
Context: I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. I believe that as civilized nations become more powerful they will get more ruthless, and the time will come when the world will impatiently bear the existence of great barbaric nations who may at any time arm themselves and menace civilized nations. I believe in the ultimate partition of China — I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

“You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?”
As quoted in Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin trans. Norman Waddell (2010) p. 179

“Do you believe in fairies?... If you believe, clap your hands!”
Act IV
Peter Pan (1904)