If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords—if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million—those people on that street in Sōshigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1945 1982 Japanese Culture Self Abnegation Self Sacrifice Suicide Surrender Wwii

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

~ Mordecai Richler

Mordecai Richler 1982 1989 Acidic Bar Barfly Beautiful Callahan Canada Captain Al Cohol Colonial Country Emmigrant English French From Far And Wide Gurskyism Immigrant Jewish Montreal Multi Culturalism North North America North Americans O Canada Ontario Province Provincial Sardonic Satire Strong And Free Trudeau

Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.

~ H.c. Nicholas

H.c. Nicholas 1982 Contradiction Credibility Evidence Law South African Law Witnesses

Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry.

~ Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa 1948 1982 Criminality Drunken Angel Sociology Yakuza