409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.