Confucius

Have they ever succeeded? For 2,500 years, Chinese of every religious faith have accepted and lived a way of life in conformity with the teachings of Confucius. The virtues of filial piety of loyalty, of righteousness, and of tolerance have formed the basis of Chinese culture which, like Greek culture, is hu

r promises. 96. If our first job is to be honest about the facts, our second job is to be honest about the remedies available to us. The teachings of Confucius and Mohammed, of Moses, of Buddha and of Christ, will not gain instant and universal acceptance merely because they are echoed in our official pronou

her forms of technical assistance in several critical areas. The noble efforts of the Republic of China reminds one of the great Chinese philosopher, Confucius, and his thoughts on giving a man a fish and teaching a man to fish, Grenada applauds the sacrifices of the Republic of China in this regard. Indeed,

can make us forget the episodes of our history when our country was subjected to foreign aggression, dismemberment and enslavement. Our ancient sage Confucius, that great thinker and statesman, admonished: "Do not do unto others what you would not like others to do unto you". Even when China becomes more de

With respect to the special needs of island developing countries, my delegation is reminded of the saying of the great Chinese sage and philosopher, Confucius: give a man a fish, and you satisfy his needs for a day; teach a man to fish, and you satisfy his needs for many a day. In Central America, the recen

means to transmit to our children and the future the crowning jewel of human existence: knowledge. The Code of Ham¬murabi, the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, the teachings of the Buddha, the Koran, the insights of Shakespeare, the creed of Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King—all these were arrangements o

et us recall that the greatest sages of all time, men we today constantly turn to for reference and guidance on human problems, like Socrates, Plato, Confucius, Mohammed, Buddha or Jesus, did not live in a mechanized world; they lived in conditions that could today be called primitive by our standards. But t

ion and spoke of human values. Would he have the audacity to insinuate that a national of his country was more worthy than a Chinese from the land of Confucius having behind him a civilization of several thousand years which he has been able to transcend by the contribution of a new humanism based on more th

is dealings with his fellow man. The world has had many great teachers and philosophers such as Christ, Mohammed, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and others who sought to lay down certain concepts of religion and moral conduct; but men, like nations, have generally interpreted such codes to mee