409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.