Kang Youwei Quotes on Politics
Kang Youwei was a late-Qing Chinese scholar, reformer, and political philosopher who reimagined Confucianism as a modern civil religion and engine of political transformation. This page collects quotes attributed to Kang Youwei on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Kang Youwei:
“Confucius was a reformer, not merely a transmitter.”
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Attributed to Kang Youwei:
“All sufferings of humanity arise from the boundaries we draw between states, between classes, between the sexes.”
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Attributed to Kang Youwei:
“The age of Great Unity is no dream; it is the destination toward which history moves.”
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Attributed to Kang Youwei:
“To preserve the Way, we must reform its forms.”
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Attributed to Kang Youwei:
“A nation that cannot change cannot endure.”