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Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Hannah Arendt

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen ... — Hannah Arendt

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

dishonor is like a scar on a tree, which time, instead of effacing, only helps to enlarge." Mencius — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Jim Bouton

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it. — Jim Bouton

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. - SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History. — Inazo Nitobe

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Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics - Loyalty being the other. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon, obey with equal fidelity and equanimity the command of his earthly master, the State? His conscience he followed, alive; his country he served, dying. Alack the day when a state grows so powerful as to demand of its citizens the dictates of their consciences! — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people. — Inazo Nitobe

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Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its schools of martial prowess or civic honor may be demolished, but its light and its glory will long survive their ruins. Like its symbolic flower, after it is blown to the four winds, it will still bless mankind with the perfume with which it will enrich life. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Taylor Swift

You and I both know there's got to be some greater storyline for you than 'girl gets heart broken, was sad forever'. I think a nice one would be 'girl gets heart broken, was sad for a while but in her heartbreak she found freedom, friends, and the ability to look back and laugh at all she'd learned. She now lives her life on her own terms and still has fantastic hair.' — Taylor Swift

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By David

Trust, encouragement, reward, loyalty ... satisfaction. That's what I'm ... you know. Trust people and they'll be true to you. Treat them greatly, and they will show themselves to be great. — David

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Kumazawa: - When others blame thee, blame them not; when others are angry at thee, return not anger. Joy cometh only as Passion and Desire part. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

The feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Tranquillity is courage in repose. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By John Howe

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look ... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely. — John Howe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

If there is anything to do, there is certainly a best way to do it, and the best way is both the most economical and the most graceful. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

We needed no Shakespeare to feel
though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor. - HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages. — Inazo Nitobe

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Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working of that mind to be an example of the working of Bushido. — Inazo Nitobe

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A samurai was essentially a man of action. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor. Have — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Thoraya Obaid

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal principles, translate them into culturally sensitive terms and design programmes based on them, programmes that people can really feel are their own. — Thoraya Obaid

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Dan Jones

While Edward was accustomed to fighting on foot, Warwick was said by one chronicler to prefer to run with his men into battle before mounting on horseback, "and if he found victory inclined to his side, he charged boldly among them; if otherwise he took care of himself in time and provided for his escape. — Dan Jones

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Tranquillity is courage in repose. It is a statical manifestation of valor, as daring deeds are a dynamical. A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Bu-shi-do means literally Military-Knight-Ways - the ways which fighting nobles should observe in their daily life as well as in their vocation; in a word, the "Precepts of Knighthood," the noblesse oblige of the warrior class. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Inazo Nitobe

Indeed, valour and honour alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace. — Inazo Nitobe

Nitobe Inazo Quotes By Jerry Izenberg

Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring. — Jerry Izenberg