The real fighter knows perfectly well that there is no difference between victory and defeat, friend and enemy, day and night, life and death.
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
All art is political, all art is a martial one.
Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.
First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.
The real hero must fail in order to succeed.
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.