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"[after the Bolshevik revolution] the very word kokutai [Japanese identity] had become detached from its dreamlike referents in mythology and was floating freely, ready to be adapted to the needs of any person or group seeking to redress a grievance, punish an opponent, aggrandize power, or adjust the political horizons of the Japanese people. //Similar to the word "justice" after a similar event in America, 2020."

"[Post-Soviet Czech Republic President Vaclav] Klaus observed that the socialist dogma being preached to today's youth is actually worse than it was under Soviet rule, when teachers taught Marxism because they had no choice.... He laughed at the bitter irony that 'there are more true believers of Marxism at the University of California Berkeley than we had in all of communist Czechoslovakia.'"

Truman in July 1945, after seeing firsthand the devastation of Berlin: "I fear that machines are ahead of morals by some centuries and when morals catch up they'll be no reason for any of it."