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Sunzi

Geburtstag: 543 v.Chr
Todesdatum: 251
Andere Namen:Sun Zi, Sun-c’

Sūnzǐ war ein chinesischer General, Militärstratege und Philosoph.

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„Die größte Leistung besteht darin, den Widerstand des Feindes ohne einen Kampf zu brechen.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges, Kapitel III

„Denn in hundert Schlachten hundert Siege zu erringen ist nicht der Inbegriff des Könnens. Der Inbegriff des Könnens ist, den Feind ohne Gefecht zu unterwerfen.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges, Kapitel III: Angriffsstrategie, Vers: 3

Über Hunde

„So kann es heißen, dass der Oberbefehlshaber der Armee zum Schiedsrichter über das Schicksal des Volkes wird.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges

Über Schicksal

„Siegen wird der, dessen Armee in allen Rängen vom gleichen Geist beseelt ist.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges

„Behandle die Gefangenen würdig und sorge gut für sie.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges, Kapitel II: Kriegsführung, Vers: 20

„Es ist eine Kriegsdoktrin, nicht anzunehmen, dass der Feind nicht anrücken wird, sondern sich auf die eigene Bereitschaft zu verlassen, ihm entgegenzutreten; Nicht anzunehmen, dass er nicht angreifen wird, sondern Vorkehrungen zur eigenen Unbesiegbarkeit zu treffen.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges, Kapitel VIII: Die neun Variablen, Vers: 16

„Wenn du dich und den Feind kennst, brauchst du den Ausgang von hundert Schlachten nicht zu fürchten. Wenn du dich selbst kennst, doch nicht den Feind, wirst du für jeden Sieg, den du erringst, eine Niederlage erleiden. Wenn du weder den Feind noch dich selbst kennst, wirst du in jeder Schlacht unterliegen.“

— Sunzi
Die Kunst des Krieges

Über Hunde

„The true objective of war is peace.“

— Sun Tzu
This attributed to Sun Tzu and his book The Art of War. Actually James Clavell’s foreword in The Art of War http://www.scribd.com/doc/42222505/The-Art-Of-War states http://www.collegetermpapers.com/TermPapers/History_Other/Sun_Tzu_vs_The_Wisdom_of_the_Desert.shtml, “’the true object of war is peace.’” Therefore the quote is stated by James Clavell, but the true origin of Clavell's quotation is unclear. Nonetheless the essence of the quote, that a long war exhausts a state and therefore ultimately seeking peace is in the interest of the warring state, is true, as Sun Tzu in Chapter II Waging Wars says that "There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on." This has been interpreted by Lionel Giles http://www.dutchjoens.info/SunTzu%20-%20Art%20of%20War.pdf as "Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close." Dr. Hiroshi Hatanaka, President of Kobe College, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan is recorded as saying "the real objective of war is peace" in Pacific Stars and Stripes Ryukyu Edition, Tokyo, Japan (10 February 1949), Page 2, Column 2.

„For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.“

— Sun Tzu
Variant translations Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting.

„Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.“

— Sun Tzu

„To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.“

— Sun Tzu
This is sometimes attributed to Sun Tzu in combination with the above quote, as well as alone, but it too has not been sourced to any published translation of The Art of War, though it is similar in concept to his famous statement in Ch. 3 : "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles..."

„Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy.“

— Sun Tzu
Attributed implicitly to Sun Tzu by "William Riker" in the episode The Last Outpost of the TV program Star Trek: The Next Generation, but no source for this quote predates the episode's airing in 1987.

„He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.“

— Sun Tzu

„It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.“

— Sun Tzu
Variant translations If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you win one and lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. Know your enemy and know yourself, find naught in fear for 100 battles. Know yourself but not your enemy, find level of loss and victory. Know thy enemy but not yourself, wallow in defeat every time. Literal translation: Know [the] other, know [the] self, hundred battles without danger; not knowing [the] other but know [the] self, one win one loss; not knowing [the] other, not knowing [the] self, every battle must [be] lost.

„A leader leads by example not by force.“

— Sun Tzu

„Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.“

— Sun Tzu
This has often been attributed to Sun Tzu and sometimes to Petrarch. It comes most directly from a line spoken by Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola:<br/> My father taught me many things here. He taught me in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close but your enemies closer.<br/> Also seen in the Thirty-Six Strategems, as the 28th strategem: Befriend a distant state and strike a neighbouring one (遠交近攻／远交近攻, Yuǎn jiāo jìn gōng) Niccolò Machiavelli commented at greater length on the subject in The Prince:<br/> It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.