Quotes by : Kenzaburō Ōe

For ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped there was so little public discussion of the bomb or....

Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!

Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as....

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something....

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while....

The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic....

Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve....

Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.