Quotes About Taira

#1. SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.

Steven Jay Schneider

#2. Civilization is a work of peaceful co-operation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. Call them robbers and cutthroats
were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill their bellies? Something was out of joint in a world that drove these men to steal.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#5. I can only bow to the will of the heaven, but not to the will of these men.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#6. Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Zig Ziglar

#7. Here
you warriors
why this moaning and complaining? Have you no more sense than toads and vipers? Our time hasn't come. Have you no patience? Are we not the 'trodden weed' still? The time is not yet here for us to raise our heads. Must you still complain?

Eiji Yoshikawa

#8. When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

Charles Frazier

#9. You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Dairy laid a hand gently on her flank. "Captain Loch showed me the difference between is and should. She shouldn't be gone but she is..." She was still trembling. Tiny whiskers of breath barely made puffs of steam in the cold morning air. "But she shouldn't be. Someone needs to start should.

Patrick Weekes

#12. Die? Then so be it.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#13. Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you, stop, get very quiet, and the world should begin to change for you. And if you see me, say something! We can talk about it together.

Jerry Saltz

#14. If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.

Marshall Sylver

#15. Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#16. Through his mad fancying he remembered Mokunosuke's words: "Whoever you are, you are a man after all. You are no cripple with those fine limbs." Whether he was the son of an emperor or the child of an intrigue, was he not a child of the heavens and the earth?

Eiji Yoshikawa

#17. I seem to hear thousands of voices
the voices of the common folk in the marketplace
urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#18. When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

William Hazlitt

#19. Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

Eiji Yoshikawa

#20. As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Robert A. Dahl