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

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

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

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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

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

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.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

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

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

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

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

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.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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