"To understand is hard. Once one understands, action is easy."
"The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat."
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Source: China as a Heap of Loose Sand (1924)
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