You're a cruel, cold-gutted, heartless bastard but you've got majesty, no doubt about that.
You should talk to Ian about Cuba, old chap, that really gets him going. He says, and I agree, you lost. The Soviets sucked you into another trap. A fool’s mate. He believes they built their sites alm...
Yabu his sword. I think Lord Toranaga only wants Izu strong and a vassal state. Not as an ally. He doesn’t want allies any more than the Taikō did. Yabu thinks he’s an ally. I think Toranaga detests a...
Why should we fight them when their own greed and stupidity’s destroying them. Eh?
Vietnam’s going to be a big problem for your government unless it’s very smart. Bartlett said confidently, Thank God it is. JFK handled Cuba. He’ll handle Vietnam too. He made the Big K back off there...
They’re wise in China. There the first of a dynasty’s always a peasant or the son of a peasant, and the throne’s always taken by force with bloody hands. No hereditary caste there—isn’t that China’s s...
They're devils who pretend to serve the Church and Christ, but they serve only themselves. They lust for power, power at any cost. They hide behind a net of poverty and piousness, but underneath, they...
The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow...
Ronin were landless or masterless peasant-soldiers or samurai who, through dishonor or the loss of their masters, were forced to wander the land until some other lord would accept their services.
Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and sea and earth. You should know, Anjin-san, in this Land of Tears, death is our heritage.
People are the company and those in charge can and always will hide behind that facade, that the company must survive, or for the good of the company, and so on, wrecking or promoting for personal rea...
Kogo, the goshawk, fluttered on his wrist and settled herself, watching him. Toranaga smiled at her. I did not choose to be what I am. It is my karma.
I think the Soviets have deliberately enticed you into Vietnam. You’ll send in troops but they won’t. You’ll be fighting Viets and the jungle, and the Soviets will be the winners. Your CIA’s already t...
He took a deep breath of air. Once again he caught a strangeness on the wind, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither odor nor perfume—just strange, and curiously exciting. Superintendent, what’s tha...
For the last time: ‘The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami.
Always remember, child her first teacher had impressed on her, that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-i...
Докато накрая и те започваха да се заричат: От утре тръгвам редовно. От утре започвам да се подготвям за онова, което искам да бъда след войната. Няма време за губене. От утре вече тръгвам. Но в Чанги...
By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
That to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, require...
Love is like the sea, sometimes calm and sometimes stormy; it’s dangerous, beautiful, death-dealing, life-giving. But never permanent, everchanging.