“Could these wonderful inventions have never been created without first going down the road of armaments and warfare? Was it acceptable that we scholars accepted this as fate – as ‘civilization’s capitalism – the unavoidable state of the utilitarian stage,’ and simply cast our hopes on the future?”

“Could these wonderful inventions have never been created without first going down the road of armaments and warfare? Was it acceptable that we scholars accepted this as fate – as ‘civilization’s capitalism – the unavoidable state of the utilitarian stage,’ and simply cast our hopes on the future?”

— Sakyo Komatsu