“There were unofficial discussions at the time about what would have happened if, heaven forbid, that nuclear warhead had exploded on American soil. There were two possible dangers: one was that the national defense system would fly into a panic… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Could these wonderful inventions have never been created without first going down the road of armaments and warfare? Was it acceptable that we scholars… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Now add in deaths from old age and disease and expand that to a global scale. Please imagine the sanitary conditions in those underdeveloped regions of the raging tropics and subtropics, and those places where there are neither medical facilities nor doctors. In advanced countries, heart disease resulting from intemperate living and cancer due to air pollution are deadly new… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share
“Silverland held two oddly misplaced fears,” continued Carter. “He always acted like he was the cheerful sort who never sweated the details, but like any bully who gets the bully pulpit, his focus on the big picture was just a mask meant to hide what a scared little boy he was. He was a lot like a Southern gambler. In… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share
“The deep darkness of good-natured humans, which causes the noble things of humanity to spoil—the affection for a worn-out, grimy lifestyle, the quarrels between husbands and wives, the cronyish, bureaucratic formalism. What foolish things we humans have consumed ourselves with! Overlaying these most trivial of things with our joy and anger and sorrow and pleasure! This is … this is simply… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share
“Tsuchiya said in a voice that was unmistakably him talking in his sleep. “Except the problem is … what kind of ending you get …” Tanabe” — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Bob, every human being acts for his or her own reasons, and they are by no means fools. Far from being fools, in each… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“In the end, the world and its civilization had not been destroyed by the purging flames of Heaven; instead it rotted away from the… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Although we are moving in the right direction, one wonders how long it will take humanity to attain a consciousness of ourselves as human… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, we lacked the courage to face up to our own true selves—our bare forms noble though petty, everything though nothing, almighty though powerless,… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
“There were unofficial discussions at the time about what would have happened if, heaven forbid, that nuclear warhead had exploded on American soil. There… — Sakyo Komatsu Copy Share Image
