Fejben Quotes & Sayings

Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. — Mao Tse-tung

Why don't you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything — Zhuangzi

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor. — Neil Simon

Please help me explain to the people that I have not yet learned how to be a heartless murderer and a sweet prince at the same time.- Prince Ikan — Ray Anyasi

The longer we stayed together, the longer our list of cuts and bruises grew - both inside and out. — Leylah Attar

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality. — Hedi Slimane

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana. — Gautama Buddha

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization. — Cesar Chavez

The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses. — Mahatma Gandhi