Shotaro

“How could it be anything but hard! It was more than the human heart could bear: to fall beneath the beloved ax -- then have to justify its wisdom.

But that is the price a man pays for entrusting his God-given soul to human dogma.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.”
― Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

“I had screwed up. Grown-ups didn’t go around blurting out troublesome things to people. You couldn’t just blithely disclose something that would then make it impossible to greet them with a smile the next day.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, Strange Weather in Tokyo

“It is never wrong to do the right thing.”
― Mark Twain, The Autobiography of Mark Twain