{"quotes":[{"text":"Granting that there is some truth to the theory that defects in society give rise to the emergence of criminals, I still maintain that those who use this theory as a defense of criminality are overlooking the fact that there are many people in this defective society who survive without resorting to crime. The argument to the contrary is pure sophistry.","author":"Akira Kurosawa","tags":["1948","1982","criminality","drunken-angel","sociology","yakuza"],"id":96133,"author_id":"Akira+Kurosawa"},{"text":"If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords—if that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million—those people on that street in Sōshigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.","author":"Akira Kurosawa","tags":["1945","1982","japanese-culture","self-abnegation","self-sacrifice","suicide","surrender","wwii"],"id":168894,"author_id":"Akira+Kurosawa"},{"text":"Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["1982","1989","acidic","bar","barfly","beautiful","callahan","canada","captain-al-cohol","colonial","country","emmigrant","english","french","from-far-and-wide","gurskyism","immigrant","jewish","montreal","multi-culturalism","north","north-america","north-americans","o-canada","ontario","province","provincial","sardonic","satire","strong-and-free","trudeau"],"id":321447,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"},{"text":"Plainly it is not every error made by a witness which affects his credibility. In each case the trier of fact has to make an evaluation; taking into account such matters as the nature of the contradictions, their number and importance, and their bearing on other parts of the witness's evidence.","author":"H.C. Nicholas","tags":["1982","contradiction","credibility","evidence","law","south-african-law","witnesses"],"id":351421,"author_id":"H.C.+Nicholas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}