Quotes About Martial

But as dictator he had made the fatal mistake of seeking to make a martial, imperial Great Power of a country which lacked the industrial resources to become one and whose people, unlike the Germans, were too civilized, too sophisticated, too down to earth to be attracted by such false ambitions. The Italian people, at heart, had never, like the Germans, embraced fascism. They had merely suffered it, knowing that it was a passing phase, and Mussolini toward the end seems to have realized this.

Everyone could see the contrast between this thriving, martial, boldly led new Germany and the decadent democracies in the West, whose confusions and vacillations seemed to increase with each new month of the calendar.

And Treitschke outdoes Hegel in proclaiming war as the highest expression of man. To him "martial glory is the basis of all the political virtues; in the rich treasure of Germany's glories the Prussian military glory is a jewel as precious as the masterpieces of our poets and thinkers." He holds that "to play blindly with peace… has become the shame of the thought and morality of our age.

Of course my base and my favorite thing is striking, and I will do a lot of striking because I love this game.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

I have great striking, really great striking, and I hit very hard.

That's why I love jiu-jitsu, this is the best martial art in the world. It's an art that seeks the peace, to dominate your opponent.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

Martial arts is for defense. It's not for attacking. So when people are fighting, always, always, defend.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

All art is political, all art is a martial one.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.

Cavanaugh believed that the term "martial arts" was a self-contradiction. When it came to combat, there was nothing artistic, nothing smooth and graceful about it.

but what good is thousands of years of art if you can't defend yourself?

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

the martial art of the long-vanished Tanith wood-warriors, the Nalsheen. In the old days, it was said, the Nalsheen had banded together in the oblique forests of Tanith and, armed only with fighting staves tipped with silver knives, had overthrown the corrupt Huhlhwch Dynasty, ushering in the age of modern, free Tanith.

Ninja therapy is a completely different branch. I could never do that. I don't even like wearing black.