Meiji Era Quotes

#1. The independence of a nation springs from the independent spirit of its citizens

Alan Macfarlane

#2. I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character .

Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand

#3. Anyone who sang the praises of undying love in this day and age belonged to the first rank of hypocrites in Daisuke's estimate.

Soseki Natsume

#4. Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. I can't be a wizard. I'm just Harry." Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

#6. Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways and to establish new ones by learning new skills.

Philippa Perry

#7. Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4

Stefan Tanaka

#8. In early Meiji one yen was worth a little more than one American dollars;

George H. Kerr

#9. The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly.

Sherry Argov

#10. Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial - particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society - and does his best to avoid it.

Soseki Natsume

#11. Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.

Martin Jacques

#12. After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.

Martin Jacques

#13. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

Clint Smith