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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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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, Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics
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Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
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The Samurai lived by a code of honor, not unlike the code that you live by. It’s called the Bushido. It was never written down; was always something the Samurai knew, and it was handed down from one warrior to another. One of the tenets of the code is about justice. Not the pounding of a gavel on the bench of some judge who’s been appointed to pass judgment on people by some politician. No, malaka, this concept of justice is what you feel in your bones: to die when it is right and to strike when it is right.

Kenneth Eade, An Evil Trade: A Paladine Political Thriller
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Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests. In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it.

Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
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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, Bushido: The Soul of Japan. A Classic Essay on Samurai Ethics
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A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit. In the heat of battle he remains cool; in the midst of catastrophes he keeps level his mind. Earthquakes do not shake him, he laughs at storms. We admire him as truly great, who, in the menacing presence of danger or death, retains his self-possession; who, for instance, can compose a poem under impending peril or hum a strain in the face of death. Such indulgence betraying no tremor in the writing or in the voice, is taken as an infallible index of a large nature—of what we call a capacious mind (Yoyū), which, far from being pressed or crowded, has always room for something more.

Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
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A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Inazo Nitobe, Bushido, The Soul Of Japan
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During times of persistent hardship is when the warrior learns the most about his fortitude.

Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
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You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.

Bohdi Sanders, Modern Bushido: Living a Life of Excellence
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