Author of quotes: Kotaro Isaac

If a person can be motivated by money, it is easy to deal with him.

The more balanced a person is, the more dangerous he is when he starts to act.

It's hard to think of anything less funny than a serious person trying to be funny.

Anything that exists for a long time deserves respect. Survival is evidence of superiority.

Although there is nothing unusual about sexual desires in themselves, their disclosure always humiliates the person whose secret has been revealed.

Whether it is war, genocide, or amendments to existing laws that oppress their rights, whatever it is, in most cases people do not notice that this is already happening, and then it seems to them that they would start protesting earlier if would only know.

Don't look for someone to blame. Nominate him.

When someone looks like they're fast asleep and suddenly starts waving, they're either a giant puppet or a dead body waving because someone else is waving their hand.

Legends appear because someone composes them.

When you control a group with fear, its rank and file members lose trust in each other. The more fear, the less trust. Anger and resentment against the tyrant is turned against those who should be allies, so that the spark of rebellion cannot flare up. Everyone just wants to keep their own safety, their only goal is to avoid punishment, and they start to spy on each other.

As long as a person hopes that he can still get by, he does not try to do anything desperate.

Usually Kimura was among those who offended others, so he knew that it usually happens without any specific reason. People just feel better when they can assert themselves at the expense of others. Humiliating someone, you yourself become higher. You feel safe. That's the way people are.

The mechanism of genocide was based on this, which, having begun, only intensified over time. Unable to accept and defend their own opinion, people simply blindly followed the "correct" opinion of the majority.

To avoid admitting their own helplessness, their own humiliating weakness, people try to find some reason for what happened. They start thinking things like, "Oh, that person must be some special person to be able to smash me to smithereens." Or: "Anyone would be helpless in such a situation." All this is a little comforting. The more self-confidence and self-respect a person has, the greater his need to repeat such things to himself. And as soon as he begins to do this, the alignment of forces is determined once and for all. After that, all that remains for you is to say two or three words to them, aimed directly at their pride, and this will completely crush them, and then they will do whatever you tell them to.