Taiwan

"Taiwan is a good global citizen."

"I made a mistake. I'm so, so sorry for my mistake. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm very sorry. You have to understand I love and respect China and Chinese people. I'm sorry."

"Taiwan is part of the sacred territory of the People's Republic of China. It is the sacred duty of all the Chinese people, including our fellow Chinese in Taiwan, to achieve the great reunification of the motherland."

"We gladly recall on this occasion the Treaty of Mutual Defense between the Republic of China and the United States. We pay tribute to the indomitable spirit of free China which, tested so often in recent years by invasion and war, has once again been demonstrated in the face of Communist attack. We recognize that the sacrifices of free China contribute to the survival of freedom everywhere. We extend our sympathy and friendship to all the Chinese people, being deeply conscious of the hardships and denials of freedom that so many of them are enduring."

"Taiwan is not a vital Australian interest. We have no alliance with Taipei. There is no piece of paper sitting in Canberra which has an alliance with Taipei. We do not recognise it as a sovereign state – we’ve always seen it as a part of China... My view is Australia should not be drawn into a military engagement over Taiwan, US-sponsored or otherwise..."

"On this occasion we recall vividly the long, arduous struggle Free China has waged under your valiant leadership against foreign aggression and Communist tyranny and for the realization of the noble aspirations of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Our alliance, based on ties of historic friendship and unity of purpose, has withstood the tests of the past. May it grow ever stronger in the years ahead."

"On Formosa, the government of the Republic of China has had the opportunity to refute by action much of the malicious gossip which so undermined the strength of its leadership on the Chinese mainland. The Formosan people are receiving a just and enlightened administration with majority representation on the organs of government, and politically, economically, and socially they appear to be advancing along sound and constructive lines."

"It is hard to think of a state less deserving of pariah status than Taiwan: a country that evolved from dictatorship to become a splendid example of liberal democracy in a region sorely in need of such an example."

"There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy."

"We want to see both sides not take unilateral action that would prejudice an eventual outcome, a reunification that all parties are seeking."

"Imperialism fears China and the Arabs. Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for Imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective."

"People in the world has said that he is a perverted murderer, I think this reason is perfect! (全世界都說了，他是變態殺人魔，我覺得這理由很好啊！)"

"Why can I laugh? And those who are hurt by my brother can they still laugh? (我憑什麼可以笑，被哥傷害的那些人，他們還可以笑嗎？)"

"We're all good people. I don't understand why things will become. What does God teach us to learn? (我們都是好人，不知道為什麼事情會變成這樣子，老天爺到底要我們學什麼？)"

"There is no parent who spends 20 years to raise a murderer in the world. (全天下沒有一個爸爸媽媽，要花一個20年去養一個殺人犯。)"

"I also sincerely believe that the best method to solve the injury is to aftercare and prevent. 我也誠心地相信，解決傷害最好的方法是善後跟預防。"

"If you find the truth and motivation, there will be no next victim! 你找到真相找到動機，就不會有下個受害者了！"

"Don't pick up calls for work during the holidays, each one should have their own lives. 休假日不要接工作電話，人應該要有自己的生活。"

"I'm not God, and I'm not so great, either. (但我不是上帝，我沒這麼偉大。)"

"Adults are really weird. Why do you not love yourself? And why can't I love? (你們大人真的很奇怪，憑什麼你們自己不愛了，為什麼我就不能愛？)"

"Hope is behind clouds. (希望就在雲的背後)"

"You can't even see your truth, however, do you want to view the whole world? (你連自己的真相都看不清，還想看清楚世界的全貌？)"

"I hate one who says sorry to me, don't make mistakes! (我最討厭人家跟我說對不起，有本事就不要犯錯誤啊！)"

"Someone else can I leave behind? I can't even leave behind my husband and son, so what does it mean to care? (我還可以留著誰呀？我連我自己的先生和兒子都留不住，所以關心有什麼意義？)"

"When others make mistakes, do we have to make mistakes? 別人犯錯，我們也要跟著犯錯嗎？"

"Do you have depression? If you do, see a doctor. It's unable to hide yourself. 你是不是有憂鬱症呀？有憂鬱症要趕快看醫生，躲起來是沒有用的。"

"Do you dare to step into the real life? (敢不敢踏進現實的世界。)"

"I don't want to be a victim's family for the rest of my life. (我不想一輩子當被害者家屬。)"

"In my experience, families don't treat each other, only hurt! (根據我的經驗，家人沒有互相治療的，只有互相傷害！)"

"Because you're brave. (可能是因為，你比較勇敢。)"

"Protect your family before you're qualified to help others. (先保護好自己的家庭，才有資格去幫助別人。)"

"What is a good person or a bad person, do you have a standard answer? (到底什麼是好人，什麼是壞人，你有標準答案嗎？)"

"One who should be dead also have human rights in need. This is the right to equality in life. (再該死也有人權。這是人生而平等的權利。)"

"You have happy fortunes, and you don't worry about yourself. However, maybe we have a father who can't find a job, drink alcohol and have domestic violence against Mom every day. (你真的很幸運，不用擔心生活。但我們可能有個找不到工作的爸爸，每天酗酒打媽媽。)"

"Why is me? Why do I get the disease? (為什麼是我？為什麼是我要得這種病？)"

"Charlie Chaplin said "Close look at life is a tragedy, far see is a comedy.". (卓別林說過一句話，人生近看是悲劇，遠看，就是喜劇了。)"

"Why do you care your governor thinks about? The point is what you think about yourself! (你幹嘛管你們長官怎麼想你？重點是你自己怎麼想的！)"

"Foreign language quote."

"The map that extends from central Taipei has limited and controlled the Taiwanese's independent thinking. The round head and thin tail of the shape of Taiwan island seem to imply the predisposition of the KMT government which has determined the central government's unfair policies and resultant uneven development between the north and the south since the end of the period of Taiwan under Japanese rule . This sad story of the left-behind peripheral areas of Taiwan utterly established the gravely authoritarian characteristics of Taipei City. Of course, it made southern Taiwanese feel neglected, inferior and deprived like second-class citizen."

"I don't know which political party started to unfairly distribute resources, showing clear evidence of a strong bias in favor towards northern Taiwan and against the south, not to mention Pingtung County has been snubbed in every respect for decades. Over the past two to three decades, it's not just that Kaohsiung citizens have been forced to drift northwards. It's also that citizens from Pingtung, Chiayi, Yunlin, and Changhua have been mandated to drift northwards. As to inhabitants of Taipei, I presume that they drift abroad"

"It's exhausting to grasp every opportunity to return to Kaohsiung having family reunion during the vacation. Because before we see our loved ones, we have to come up against long queue for tickets and endless south-bound traffic jams. These hardships and pains are not something those big governors living in the palace in Taipei can ever understand. If southern Taiwan had developed an environment that features better working conditions and study atmosphere, I must have stayed in southern Taiwan and wouldn't have to confront all these bitterness..... Do people even know the fact that over three-fourths of universities in Taiwan are based in the teeny flat land north of Hsinchu? Not to mention all the major companies, better working remunerations are treasured and collected in Taipei. Every time, when it comes to holidays, the north-south bound traffic becomes a mess. The whole of these entire messes are the consequences of the unfair distribution of the resources in the north against southern Taiwan. That's why we see many migratory birds on the streets just before and after the vacations in Taiwan."

"The central government has invested all of the money in northern Taiwan, including its technology budget and economic development budget. Everything is in northern Taiwan. Not to mention, all of the policy makers also live in northern Taiwan. In these politicians' visions, southern Taiwan doesn't even exist!"

"Southern Taiwanese are leaning forward so-called Taiwan-centered awareness over time. Nonetheless, Taiwan-centered awareness has been labeled politically. If our minds agree to such sentimental values manipulated by the politicians, consumption and customer's behavior would shift to that side. Consequently, people in Taiwan begin passing up the opportunity to engage in relatively advanced customer behavior. Southern Taiwan is indeed intentionally conserving things that are gone obsolescent...... The professed "local-ism" is supposed to move forward as the time elapses. In the present climate, the mind of Taiwanese society begins to wander and be missing in a childish age. If this kind of tendency continues, I think metropolitan areas in northern Taiwan will swiftly be enclosed by backward hamlets."

"Highly-educated researchers are Taiwan's paramount property. We understand that the scientific industrial zone in Hsinchu was run out of capacity. Whereas, we had tried to convince our researchers to relocate to the scientific industrial zone in Tainan in which the capacity never ran out. But we failed. Our researchers just didn't want to move to southern Taiwan. Furthermore, in the past, UMC forced their R & D team to move to Tainan under the same dilemma we face today. Then not for too long, UMC's R & D team broke up. This is why our technology still leads ahead of UMC nowadays. Taken together, we have no choice but to build our new R & D centers on a mountain in Hsinchu."

"It is another gray and gloomy reality that many workers' dream openings are only available in northern Taiwan..."

"I do wish to be working in my hometown but the stark reality is that southern Taiwan's market is just too little in every respect. In Taipei, I work as a marketing manager for a company selling cosmetics, and my monthly salary is almost 50k. In the past, I attempted to find a similar job in Tainan. During the interview, Tainan's employers recognized my experience but they only afforded to pay me 30k a month, which is the salary I received in my first year of career without experience. When they saw me looking astonished, they shrugged their shoulders saying "This is Tainan." I sighed deeply and thought that the recent statistics showed that the Taiwanese average monthly salary was 41k. Although I am above the average, I cannot save a penny when I take into account the expensive housing rental fee, transportation fees, basic social activities expenditures, and meals. Despite working in my hometown Tainan may help cut spending and keep down costs, Tainan's general phenomenon of low payment is devastating my sense of accomplishment at work, which is even worse than working in Taipei."

"[Civil] rights researcher Wu Chih-Chung identified the root cause of unjust tax cases in the system of bonuses paid to tax bureaucrats who hastily impose ill-founded tax bills. Wu said that this is a legacy of the White Terror, where alleged Communists were arrested, tortured, and often killed after being reported to the authorities by whistleblowers who then received as bonuses a part of their victims’ confiscated assets. This system caused the death of many innocents and continues in the shape of bonuses that lead to the fabrication of false tax bills, Wu concluded."