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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.

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

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

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

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

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

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

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

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.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.