“I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.”

I think that in the essence of human civilization, we have the desire to become rich without limit, by taking the lives of other creatures.

The future is clear. It’s going to fall apart. What’s the use in worrying? It’s inevitable.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

Utopia exists only in one’s childhood life.

There has never been a work of art created which didn’t somehow reflect its own time.

Reality is for people that lack imagination.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Engineers turn dreams into reality.

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.

I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

You always have to appeal to your audience.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance, in every war they kill you in a new way.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.