Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

Grasp the opportunity with both hands to feel really very special as an Indian reading these quotes on the Indian Independence Day. A number of famous and reputed persons have thrown some light on the chapter of Indian Independence. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border!"