Sun Tzu Quotes

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being, nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

~ Sun Tzu

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

~ Sun Tzu

One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.

~ Sun Tzu

Be where your enemy is not.

~ Sun Tzu

I thought there was no use for me in reading Sun Tzu and Machiavelli because I am neither a warrior nor a politician, but it turned out to be useful when I married

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The Sun Tzu School Ping-fa Directive. Be strong and continually aware. Manage your strength and that of others. When essential, engage on your terms. Be observant, adaptive, and subtle. Do not lose control. Act decisively. Conclude quickly. Don't Fight!

~ David G. Jones

The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and accepted after the fall of the first empire as a text on military tactics. Likewise, they would have been surprised to see the Ping-fa military metaphor—an inspired teaching device—come to be seen as the message and not the medium.

~ David G. Jones