... with every Asiatic country where we operate in cooperation with the existing culture, the need for intelligent understanding o...f that country and its ways of life will be crucial. These nations will very likely not respond to appeals with which we are familiar, and not value rewards which seem to us irresistible. The danger--and it would be fatal to world peace--is that in our ignorance of their cultural values we shall meet in head-on collision and incontinently fall back on the old pattern of imposing our own values by force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will be starting pretty late. He'll find that Asiatic state... Is about tired of being looted While having its beliefs disputed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That is Lenin. Look at the self-willed, stubborn head. A real Russian peasant's head with a few faintly Asiatic lines. That man wi...ll try to overturn mountains. Perhaps he will be crushed by them. But he will never yield.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each thick finger, a fattened worm, gesticulates, And his words strike you like they were many-pound weights.... His full cockroach moustache hints a laughter benigning, And the shafts of his boots: always spotlessly shining.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two principles, according to the Settembrinian cosmogony, were in perpetual conflict for possession of the world: force and justic...e, tyranny and freedom, superstition and knowledge; the law of permanence and the law of change, of ceaseless fermentation issuing in progress. One might call the first the Asiatic, the second the European principle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come forth with a cockroach large enough to be Franz Kafka (may he rest in peace though locked in his room). Surely all who are lo...cked in boxes of different sizes should have their hands held. Trains and planes should not be locked.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach.... Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »