409 Quotes by Pearl S. Buck

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.