Shinzo Abe Quotes

The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

Shinzo Abe

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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • Plan

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Find
  • Determination

• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Compassion

• Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network - something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • School
  • Strong
  • Internet

• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Loved

• The one thing that's going to get you through this business is having strong roots, being grounded and knowing what is true.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Business
  • True
  • Strong

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I want to behave more like a boy... I want to be the strong one.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Boy

• I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Myself

• Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Character
  • Strong

• It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Strong
  • Democracy
  • Smart

• I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Art
  • Power

• Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let our first object be the veneration of the Imperial Court, which vouchsafes its protection to the commonwealth, and let those who hold the reins of government consider the general good.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Good
  • Love
  • Strong

• I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Country
  • Society

• Lilith might be strong enough now to handle troublemakers herself, but she did not want to do that unless she had to. It would not help the people become a community, and if they could not unite, nothing else they did would matter.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • She
  • Help

• Sometimes, when I'm sitting with people who have been stripped of everything and who are naked and authentic and finding themselves for the first time, I am reminded of how good people really are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• The ANC must ensure that South Africa does not become a mafia state because once you reach that state, all the wheels have come off.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa

• Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

  

  Jim McKelvey
  • Good
  • Art
  • Why

• When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Doing

• The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Strong
  • Shows
  • Determination