Conscience Quote by Ronald Schaffer

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as…

— Curtis LeMay

“A poll of U.S. servicemen indicated that 44 percent would like to kill a Japanese soldier while only 6 percent felt the same way…

— David Livingstone Smith

“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act of war,…

— Paul Virilio

“In fact, the Japanese defending the island had no illusions about victory and did not even consider it a realistic option. They merely hoped…

— Charles River Editors

“If there is anything that makes my blood boil it is to see our allies in Indochina and Java deploying Japanese troops to reconquer…

— Douglas MacArthur

“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the…

— James Bradley

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

— Sadao Araki

“Kuribayashi had the benefit of having traveled in the United States, and he had even attended Harvard for a short time. In his travels,…

— Charles River Editors

We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?

— Curtis LeMay

“Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were…

— Allen Nevins

“Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that…

— Ronald Schaffer