Quotes by : Inazo Nitobe

A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his....

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Beneath the instinct to fight there lurks a diviner instinct to love.

Did not Socrates, all the while he unflinchingly refused to concede one iota of loyalty to his daemon,....

Bushido as an independent code of ethics may vanish, but its power will not perish from the earth; its....

Read Hearn, the most eloquent and truthful interpreter of the Japanese mind, and you see the working....

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express....