Eisaku Sato famous quotes

The international order established at the end of World War II could certainly have been worse. However, this order did contain certain factors which bore within them the seeds of instability.
-- Eisaku Sato

#War #Order #World

Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.
-- Eisaku Sato

#War #People #Soil

It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
-- Eisaku Sato

#Country #Hair #Government

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.
-- Eisaku Sato

#Japan #People #Desire

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
-- Eisaku Sato

#Government #Office #People

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
-- Eisaku Sato

#Objectivity #Ordinary #Daily Life

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.
-- Eisaku Sato

#War #Years #People

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
-- Eisaku Sato

#People #Nuclear #World

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
-- Eisaku Sato

#Country #War #Heart

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

Order, thou eye of action.

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.