Kenzaburo Oe Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Reality, Support, Half

• In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  War, Taken, Opportunity

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Kenzaburo Oe's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

• After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  War, Forever, World

  "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.

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