Yoshiki Tanaka Quotes & Sayings

it's the ones who empower a dictator who deserve most of the blame. But the ones who don't support him actively - who watch it happening without saying anything - they're just as much to blame. — Yoshiki Tanaka

Two things are essential for getting people to trust in the system: fair courts and equally fair taxation. Just these two." In — Yoshiki Tanaka

It was no fun at all watching events heading straight off in the direction of "Boy, I sure hope that doesn't happen." My — Yoshiki Tanaka

fundamentally, people do not prefer independent thought and the accompanying responsibility, but rather orders, subordination, and the accompanying exemption from responsibility. In a popular democracy, the masses who elect unfit rulers are to blame for bad government, but that is not the case in a monarchy. Rather than reflecting upon their own mistakes, the people are free to enjoy speaking ill of leaders who are even more irresponsible than they. — Yoshiki Tanaka

Is that "true justice" you spoke of something that requires you to step over the dignity of others to reach? — Yoshiki Tanaka

When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root. — Yoshiki Tanaka

Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries. — Yoshiki Tanaka

I guess it's true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent." Yang — Yoshiki Tanaka