... 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 »
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 »
It is a sublime conservatism; as wide as the world, and as unwearied as time; preserving the universe with Asiatic anxiety, in tha...t state in which it appeared to their minds.... Their speculations never venture beyond their own table-lands, though they are high and vast as they. Buoyancy, freedom, flexibility, variety, possibility, which also are qualities of the Unnamed, they deal not with. The undeserved reward is to be earned by an everlasting moral drudgery; the incalculable promise of the morrow is, as it were, weighed. And who will say that their conservatism has not been effectual?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden. ...Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »