Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.