Seishiro Itagaki quotes

“Now that the Emperor has accepted the Potsdam Declaration, we must lay down our arms. Obeying the Emperor's order, we shall not fight. We must keep peace and order and we shall not make any trouble.”
-- Seishiro Itagaki

Source : "Red Star Over Malaya". Book by Boon Kheng Cheah, p. 130, 2003.

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“I am convinced that in times such as these, every man must be a soldier, in substance as well as in name.”
-- Seishiro Itagaki

Source : "The Fight for the Pacific". Book by by Mark Gayn, p.157, 1941.

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“The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.”
-- Seishiro Itagaki

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“The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.”
-- Seishiro Itagaki

Source : "Time". Book by Briton Hadden, p. 29, 1923.

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“I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.”
-- Seishiro Itagaki

Source : Oakland Tribune Newspaper, February 21, 1939.

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“I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.”

“The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.”

“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).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.”

Source : Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.”

“I'm not an expert on the arms race.”

“What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?”

“No one's interested really in knowing what policies or diplomatic initiatives or arms negotiations might have been compromised by me.”

“He was beside me then, his arms wrapped around me, holding me tightly. "I'm not crazy," I whispered. "I know." Believe it or not, that's the most romantic thing Zachary Goode ever told me. And I kind of loved him for it.”