We are not made to live subjected to authoritarian rule but instead need to be independent and free to act as we choose. This is what we call the ind… - Uchiyama Gudō
" "We are not made to live subjected to authoritarian rule but instead need to be independent and free to act as we choose. This is what we call the individual’s common consciousness. No matter how well the government develops, no matter how kindly public officials lead us, they will never be able to satisfy our ideal. The more complicated the government becomes, the more corrupt it gets.
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About Uchiyama Gudō
(Japanese: , May 17, 1874 – January 24, 1911) was a Zen Buddhist priest and anarcho-socialist activist executed in the . He was one of few Buddhist leaders who spoke out against the Meiji government in its imperialist projects.
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