Samurai Quotes - Page 4

• a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.

  Yukio Mishima

  Men, Skills, Cogs

  Yukio Mishima, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (1977). “Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: the Samurai ethic and modern Japan”

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• Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

  Edward Zwick

  Life, Years, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

  Sun Tzu

  Inspirational, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2012). “The Illustrated Art of War”, p.144, Courier Corporation

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• Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Eye, Cutting, Warrior

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• A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Dog, War, Skins

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  Orlando Bloom

  Angel, Saws, Spirit

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• I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend.

  Virat Kohli

  Tattoo, Warrior, Skills

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• I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  War, Mean, Life And Death

  "Hagakure". Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.

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• I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.

  Nagisa Oshima

  Fighting, Authority And Power, Fighter

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• Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, War, Moving

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter XIII), 2003.

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• I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Movie, Actors, Lovers

  Rolling Stone, 2003.

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• There's a level where the themes of a film are very relevant to me and also the idea of finding out how relevant one genre is to another. I think that westerns and samurai films and superhero films have a lot in common. It's just that the scale of the visuals in tentpole films can sometimes overwhelm the drama.

  James Mangold

  Drama, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

  Kato Kiyomasa

  War, Love Is, Punishment

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• The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain and their absolute lack of fear of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Health, Buddhism

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• Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with Samurai swords.

  Lucy Liu

  Girl, Silly, Play

  "Fictional character: O-Ren Ishii". "Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Native American, Good Day, Energy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  War, Choices, Way

  "Hagakure" by Nabeshima Naoshige, translated by William Scott Wilson, 1979.

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• Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or crook to each yourself and the environment.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Climbing, Self, Ordinary

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• …the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

  Yukio Mishima

  Heart, Men, Vanity

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• Kim: Hey... There's a guy over there with a samurai sword. Scott: Really? Like a katana or a wakizashi or both?

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Guy, Hey, Kim

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• The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.

  George Lucas

  Book, Princess, Views

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• Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation.

  Stephanie Mills

  Christian, Spiritual, Sacrifice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Throughout history, every great warrior-the Greeks, the Samurais, the American Indians, the Mongolians, you name it-had long hair and would dress it before battle.

  Troy Polamalu

  Warrior, Hair, Names

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• Young artists wish for inspired moments. And you find them; you take them; eager artists are bandits. Theatrical moments arrive, and...you grab. Good! You know it will draw attention to you. But you aim to be more than bandits, no? So, okay...now be Samurai.

  Jerzy Grotowski

  Artist, Wish, Attention

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• When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Practice, Etc

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