Guangcheng Chen Quotes & Sayings

China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy. — Chen Guangcheng

I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up. — Chen Guangcheng

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. — Gautama Buddha

Dictators are actually very fearful themselves. Even when they're asleep, they're afraid that others will take their powers away. — Chen Guangcheng

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you. — Chen Guangcheng

That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has. — John Campbell Shairp

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. — Chen Guangcheng

I am not a hero. — Chen Guangcheng

Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world. — Julie Bishop

Tears are the summer showers to the soul. — Alfred Austin

Our Shadow Will Be a bad Dream For others when we Not come in Peace. — Jan Jansen

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. — Chen Guangcheng

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it. — Eve Best

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now. — Chen Guangcheng

I am not in exile. — Chen Guangcheng

Panditji lived a full life replete with achievements and honours. He was such a versatile and noble man that the like of him may not be born again.'
Sri Shanti Bhushan, Advocate — Munindra Misra

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future. — Chen Guangcheng

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice. — Chen Guangcheng

What are your drawn to?"
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"Language, Words, No, not teaching. Perhaps one day I'll write something. — Ellen Sussman

I cannot be silent when facing these evils against women and children. — Chen Guangcheng

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure. — H.L. Mencken

My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane, — Chen Guangcheng

A dream can be remarkable and alluring, that is why I chase it hoping that one day something good would happen! — Maddy

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home? — Chen Guangcheng

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. — Marty Rubin

You are made for a person and a place. Jesus is the person. Heaven is the place. — Randy Alcorn

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do. — Chen Guangcheng

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good. — Chen Guangcheng