153 Quotes by Amy Chua

America’s continued existence as a super-group is under tremendous strain today. America is beginning to display destructive political dynamics much more typical of developing and non-Western countries: ethnonationalist movements; backlash by elites against the masses; popular backlash against both “the establishment” and “outsider minorities” viewed as disproportionately powerful; and, above all, the transformation of democracy into an engine of zero-sum political tribalism.

Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there’s a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

The United States spent over $1 trillion on the war in Iraq; some 4,500 American lives were lost. Yet fourteen years after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein, Iran’s power is ascendant, with Tehran now wielding more influence over Baghdad than Washington.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don’t know what that is and we all – you know, you won’t know until the future.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you’re good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and.

The great Enlightenment principles of modernity – liberalism, secularism, rationality, equality, free markets – do not provide the kind of tribal group identity that human beings crave and have always craved. They have strengthened individual rights and individual liberty, created unprecedented opportunity and prosperity, transformed human consciousness, but they speak to people as individuals and as members of the human race, whereas the tribal instinct occupies the realm in between.

Don’t assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can’t take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn’t let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn’t bother me.