Witnessing History Quotes

“---nothing hurts more than repenting.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“I believe that the reason why today's society has so many problems is that people's criteria for evaluating good and bad are declining so that people's moral standards can only decline with their criteria.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“The streams rise when the river is high.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“The third poem, 'Enlightened Being', goes like this:
Everyday people don't know me,
I sit in mysterious pass
Amidst greed and desires, no me
After a hundred years, only me.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“As they say, good news never goes beyond the gate but bad news spreads far and wide.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“In fact, a religion has two aims: one is to really make those who are good and go up through cultivation obtain the proper way; the other is to maintain the morality of human society on a quite high level.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom

“Nobility is the motto of the noble-minded; the base use sordidness as a pass. Base souls cannot comprehend noble hearts and noble actions, nor can they believe that people can live magnanimous lives.”
― Jennifer Zeng, Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom