“Together, Kozuka and I vowed that somehow we would avenge Shimada’s death.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
“Then, with his eyes directly on me, he said, “You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, we’ll come back for you. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that’s the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you give up your life voluntarily.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
“Don’t shoot,” I said. “We can always kill some of them whenever we want to. Let’s let them live a little longer.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
“If I could kill one more enemy with the last bullet, so much the better. That, rather than commit suicide, seemed to me to be what a soldier ought to do.”
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
― No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
“If you have to shit, shit! If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.”
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII
― Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung: Volume VIII
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