Yagyu Munenori quotes

“Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.”
-- Yagyu Munenori

Source : "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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“See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.”
-- Yagyu Munenori

Source : "Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think". Book by Forrest E. Morgan, p. 88, 1992.

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“It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.”
-- Yagyu Munenori

Source : "The Japanese Art of War". Book by by Thomas Cleary, 1991.

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“When you strike a blow, do not let your mind dally on it, not concerning yourself with whether or not it is a telling blow; you should strike again and again, over and over, even four or five times. The thing is not to let your opponent even raise his head.”
-- Yagyu Munenori

Source : "A Hereditary Book on the Art of War". Book by Yagyu Munenori, 1632.

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“Conquering evil, not the opponent is the essence of swordsmanship.”
-- Yagyu Munenori

Source : "Behold the Second Horseman" by Joseph Lumpkin, (p. 44), 2005.

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“I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.”

“In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.”

“You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.”

“Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.”

“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.”

“Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?”

Source : Song: Ashes and Wine, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.”

Source : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (2003). “Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India”, p.108, Penguin Books India

“Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”

“I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.”

“Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.”