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 no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
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.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.
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.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
If we don't end war, war will end us.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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.
