History of Tibet/manchurian Qing Dynasty

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, tibet and/or qing:

    “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “... that there is no other way,
    That the history of creation proceeds according to
    Stringent laws, and that things
    Do get done in this way, but never the things
    We set out to accomplish and wanted so desperately
    To see come into being.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Ever since you came back from Tibet I’ve had a feeling you were planning to divorce me and marry a laboratory.”
    —John Colton (1886–1946)

    “There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
    —Jiang Qing (1914–1991)