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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

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

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

War is over ... If you want it.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.