Ōsugi Sakae

"With each loss, new buds of victory unfold in our hearts."

"So struggle! For struggle is life's flower; The fertile flower of life."

"I must cease the casting of my own chains. I must cease the binding of my body. I must break the chains that bind me. I must also create a new self, a new reality, a new sense of justice, a new fate."

"The interaction of nothing with nothing—the relationship between nothing and nothing—will, ultimately, be nothing."

"Sloth has no ambition. Sloth makes no history."

"Arguments don't break chains."

"Let freedom be for an idea, Let freedom be for an action, Still, let freedom be for a motive!"