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Uchiyama Gudō Quotes

1874–1911 Japan

Uchiyama Gudō (Japanese: 内山愚童, May 17, 1874 – January 24, 1911) was a Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest and anarcho-socialist activist executed in the High Treason Incident. He was one of few Buddhist leaders who spoke out against the Meiji government in its imperialist projects.

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Nothing can be realized without sacrifice.

Anarchist Communist Revolution: In Commemoration of Imprisonment (1908)

A superstition is a wrong idea that one holds precious like a sacred thing.

Anarchist Communist Revolution: In Commemoration of Imprisonment (1908)

There is nothing more dangerous than to pass judgment on the basis of fragmentary proof.

Common Consciousness (1911)

Taxes — money that is taken by that big thief called the government.

Anarchist Communist Revolution: In Commemoration of Imprisonment (1908)

Truth will eventually triumph one day, the light of freedom will doubtlessly and without fail illuminate the whole family and bestow its blessings upon all.

Common Consciousness (1911)

Everyone should put the elders first in accordance with the customs to treat elders with respect.

Common Consciousness (1911)

One should improve upon the habit of giving to others what one desires for oneself.

Common Consciousness (1911)

Women are not men’s belongings.

Common Consciousness (1911)

That big thief called the government.

Anarchist Communist Revolution: In Commemoration of Imprisonment (1908)

Old habits in particular will not make it easy to realize our ideas, but nonetheless, we should make up our minds and strive to achieve them.

Common Consciousness (1911)

Even though you are like travelers at dusk at the foot of a mountain, you should not be discouraged, because you will certainly advance step by step toward the top of that mountain called consciousness. Isn’t it so? Anyone who looks attentively at human history will understand that all people, the wise and the fool, and also the poor, are heading toward the shore of freedom, each in their own way.

Common Consciousness (1911)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Uchiyama Gudō (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.