Meiji Quotes

#1. 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

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

George H. Kerr

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Selling is true fun and the pleasure of selling enjoyed only when someone buys it...

Selling and buying are like husband and wife, someone has to sell for someone to buy and vice-versa....

Even if both are interesting, sometimes it is closely associated with needs and choice

Anish Rajan

#6. There's no prison worse than "I promise.

Andrew Smith

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

Alan Macfarlane

#8. There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.

David Archuleta

#9. 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

#10. The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional.

Lawrence Weiner

#11. Perhaps his next task should be to concoct an eighth deadly sin. Or he could work toward finding even a dozen. The devil knew he'd worn out the original seven.

Suzanne Enoch

#12. As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

Megan McCafferty

#13. The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. 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

#15. In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,

Jamsetji Tata