Quotes

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: “To rise above the little things.”

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

For both Johnson and Burke, the key to sustaining social order was what they called “subordination.” Today that word probably suggests servility or even

Subordination was the philosophical basis for the grim fact that the vast majority of crimes, even those punishable by death, were crimes against property.

Burke wrote during the panic that followed the French Revolution, “must not find the principles of natural subordination by art [i.e., artfully specious arguments]

I must admit that cruelty and force exerted against weakness turn me sick with rage, but this would be equally true in the treatment

This is Sakai’s own statement of the postwar period: “In the Imperial Japanese Navy I learned only one trade — how to man a

It was the power of the government over the freedom of its subjects. To think of it in the abstract made it seem so

The first idea or teaching is that morality is relative, at best a personal “value judgment.” Relative means that there is no absolute right