"If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy."

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Source : Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (2002). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.53, Kodansha International

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#War Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.”
“The attention of the media is only caught by acts of violence... so I must perform this act of violence against myself.”
“Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars...”
“Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.”
“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
“I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.”
“I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.”
“Bear good fortune modestly.”

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