Quotes About Nanking

#1. Today, over half of American workers have less than $10,000 in savings and have no idea how they will be able to retire with any shred of dignity.

Bernie Sanders

#2. Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Michel Foucault

#4. Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

Ze Frank

#5. There's no solution except to break the power of Chiang Kai-shek by capturing Nanking. That is what I must do.

Iwane Matsui

#6. We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.

Iris Chang

#8. O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize,
And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

#9. Prince Asaka had joined the army only about ten days before its entry into Nanking and in view of the short time he was connected with this army I do not think he can be held responsible. I would say that the Division Commanders are the responsible parties.

Iwane Matsui

#10. Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is.

Mamoru Hosoda

#11. The Rape of Nanking did not penetrate the world consciousness in the same manner as the Holocaust or Hiroshima because the victims themselves had remained silent.

Iris Chang

#12. And maps can really point to places
Where life is evil now:
Nanking. Dachau.

W. H. Auden

#13. Maybe that was the price of ignorance, I thought, looking at the naked vagrant. Maybe Japan had to pay for the ignorant things it did in Nanking. Because ignorance as I'd got tired of hearing, is no excuse for evil.

Mo Hayder