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.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.

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.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

All warfare is based on deception.

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

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

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

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

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

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