Tan Sitong Quotes on Freedom
Tan Sitong was a late-Qing Chinese reformer and philosopher, one of the Six Gentlemen executed after the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform of 1898. This page collects quotes attributed to Tan Sitong on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Tan Sitong:
“Each country requires the blood of reformers; without it, no awakening is possible.”
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Attributed to Tan Sitong:
“If reform demands a death, let mine be that death.”
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Attributed to Tan Sitong:
“The bonds of subject to ruler, of son to father, of wife to husband, are the chains that benevolence demands we break.”
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Attributed to Tan Sitong:
“I have not yet found my freedom; perhaps my death will help others find theirs.”