Atomic Samurai Quotes

Samurai are born to die. Death is not a curse to be avoided -- but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal . . . dishonor is.

All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?! You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness! Your judgement is shit! Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.

As we men live and act, so do our arteries; so does blood; so do corpuscles. As cells and protoplasm live and act, so do elements, molecules, and atoms. As elements and atoms live and act, so do clouds; so does the earth; so does the ocean, the Milky Way, and the Solar System. What is this life which pervades the grandest as well as the minutest works of Nature, and which may fitly be said 'greater than the greatest and smaller than the smallest?' It cannot be defined. It cannot be subjected to exact analysis. But it is directly experienced and recognized within us, just as the beauty of the rose is to be perceived and enjoyed, but not reduced to exact analysis. At any rate, it is something stirring, moving, acting and reacting continually. This something which can be experienced and felt and enjoyed directly by every one of us. This life of living principle in the microcosmos is identical with that of the macrocosmos, and the Universal Life of the macrocosmos is the common source of all lives.

the new theory of matter has entirely over thrown the old conception of the unchanging atoms, and they are now regarded to be composed of magnetic forces, ions, and corpuscles in incessant motion. Therefore we have no inert matter in the concrete, no unchanging thing in the sphere of experience, no constant organism in the transient universe.

I cannot imagine the simple chemical and physical forces without attributing the movement of material particles to conscious sensation." The same author says again: "We may ascribe the feeling of pleasure and pain to all atoms, and so explain the electric affinity in chemistry." 12.

the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom.

Martial Arts Retired and unemployed former samurai soon realized that the foreigners

Buddhist monasteries had structures akin to feudal divisions and even employed their own samurai warriors.

They opposed samurai rule, as the shoguns and their warrior troops were responsible for most of the taxes.

Japanese samurai won some decisive battles against the great khan,

Because a samurai with no master had virtually no duties to perform and no other employable skills,

Ronin, the term discussed above that means vagrants, also came to mean those samurai who had no lord.

The samurai and military men had little cash flow and enormous debts.

Sumo wrestlers, who were probably ronin (samurai with no masters) as they needed to find a source of income, also rose in popularity at this time.

Their warriors were called bushi but are commonly known as samurai

Some faithful samurai chose to commit ritual suicide, known as seppuku,

Honor – A samurai was expected to do what was required but never to relish destruction or killing for its own sake.

Character – Every samurai was expected to manifest moral conduct

samurai warrior pledged his entire life to the defense of the leader of the province

The military was no longer driven by the samurai, and mandated military service was required of all able-bodied males in their twenties.

The samurai learned Bushido from a very young age.

former samurai, concocted a scheme to trigger a war with Korea, thus creating a need for Japan to keep its samurai.

samurai was a highly trained warrior who was a part of the military nobility.

was the automatic loss of jobs for the samurai. Suddenly, they were robbed of a lifestyle they had

The old feudal schools to train the samurai were converted by the former daimyos,

Few people now reflect that samurai swords killed more people in WWII that atomic bombs. WWII veteran Paul Fussell wrote, "The degree to which Americans register shock and extraordinary shame about the Hiroshima bomb correlates closely with lack of information about the Pacific War. Marine veteran and historian William Manchester wrote, "You think of the lives which would have been lost in an invasion of Japan's home islands--a staggering number of Americans but millions more of Japanese--and you thank god for the atomic bomb." Winston Churchill told Parliament that the people who preferred invasion to dropping the atomic bomb seemed to have "no intention of proceeding to the Japanese front themselves.