Lu Xun

Lu Xun
Lu Xun, formerly also romanized Lu Hsün, was the pen name of Zhou Shuren, a leading figure of modern Chinese literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese as well as Classical Chinese, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet. In the 1930s he became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth25 September 1881
CountryChina
government tyrants execution
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
protect
To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.
pain mistake past
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.
faults conclusion defects
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
dream spoiled given
Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.
trust doubt
Trust only him who doubts.
path countryside
Hope is like a path in the countryside...
marriage mother daughter
Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character; it is a combination of mother and daughter.
fighting men speaks-out
If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
despair deceptive hollow
Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!
reform world existential
You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.
existential
I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.
hands cities car
In China, especially in the cities, if someone fainted on the streets, or if someone was knocked over by a car, you'll find lots of gawkers and gloaters, but rarely will you find someone willing to extend a helping hand.
pain men people
True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.