Onoda X Quotes & Sayings

Yet the ailment is virtually nonexistent in Iceland. There is a higher prevalence of the disorder in the northeastern United States than in Iceland. Perplexed by the results, psychologists theorize that over the centuries Icelanders developed a genetic immunity to the disease. Those who got SAD died out, taking their gene pool with them. Survival of the felicitous. — Eric Weiner

One must always be civic-minded. — Hiroo Onoda

In what, then, can those engaged in this kind of warfare place their hope? The Nakano Military School answered this question with a simple sentence: "In secret warfare, there is integrity." And this is right, for integrity is the greatest necessity when a man must deceive not only his enemies but his friends. With integrity - and I include in this sincerity, loyalty, devotion to duty and a sense of morality - one can withstand all hardships and ultimately turn hardship itself into victory. This was the lesson that the instructors at Futamata were constantly trying to instill in us. One of them put it this way: "If you are genuinely pure in spirit, people will respond to you and cooperate with you." This meant to me that so long as I remained pure inside, whatever measures I saw fit to take would eventually redound to the good of my country and my countrymen. — Hiroo Onoda

Life is not fair and people are not equal. — Hiroo Onoda

Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up. — Hiroo Onoda

The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national. — Malcolm Wallop

I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to? — Cory Doctorow

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose. — Hiroo Onoda

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not. — Isabelle Holland

If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish - to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what's going to happen? There's going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them. — Rick Ross

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. — James Russell Lowell

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners. — Patrick Leahy

People cannot live completely by themselves. — Hiroo Onoda

Pantera is the only band I've ever been in, and at the start we used to play covers to make a living. — Dimebag Darrell

Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn't like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave. — Hiroo Onoda

And then I thought that it wasn't fair that at seventeen you could make choices that you might regret for the rest of your life because you really had no idea what you were doing and the stakes were just too high. — Melissa Kantor

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco — Mark Twain

Some dreams are best not to wake up from. — Hiroo Onoda

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks