Fukuzawa Yukichi

Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) was a Japanese reformer. He was a key person in the Meiji reform movement that ended the previous feudal system in Japan. He argued for adoption of Western science and civilization in the country. His book Conditions in the West was a best-seller of the time. He also wrote thirty volumes of wit.

Wisdom & Quotes

• One hundred volumes of international law are not the equal of a few cannons; a handful of treaties are not worth a basket of gunpowder. Cannon and gunpowder are not aids for the enforcement of given moral principles, they are implements for the creation of morality where non exists.

Nguyen Khuyen