“不是我殺是天殺，不是天殺是地殺，不是地殺是蔣殺，一報還一報，罪有應得!“
- Gao Shuxun [to Shi Yousan]

"...better to be a broken jade than a whole tile."
- Jiang Zhongzheng [after the fall of Wuhan, 1938]

"A fabulous gangster city,..the biggest and wildest free-for-all, unparalleled by any other metropolis... Beside it the Chicago of Al Capone was a staid, almost pious, provincial town."
- Han Suyin [on 1930s Shanghai]

"After having eaten everything possible, including the soles of their boots, they have begun to eat each other, and, what is more serious, have eaten a German sentry."
- Hermann Göring [to Galeazzo Ciano on Soviet prisoners]

"I am not disturbed by the loss of cities. If we lose too many, we shall build some more."
- Jiang Zhongzheng [to W.H Donald and Song Meiling, 1938]

"...we all gave her three cheers as she went. You could hear the faint cheers rippling over the water."
- Lt. Cmdr. George Cooper [on the sinking of HMS Exeter at Java Sea]

"The Big Bullock of the present government, the emperor, is not the son of the gods as your primary school teachers and others would have you believe. The ancestors of the present emperor came forth from a corner of Kyushu, killing and robbing people as they did. They then destroyed their fellow thieves [...] When it is said that the Imperial dynasty has continued for 2,500 years, it may seem as if the present emperor is divine, but down through the ages the emperors have been tormented by foreign opponents and, domestically, treated as puppets by their own vassals [...] Although this is well-known, university professors and their students, weaklings that they are, refuse to either say or write anything about it. Instead, they attempt to deceive both others and themselves, knowing all along the whole thing is a pack of lies."
- 内山愚童

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