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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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.

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.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

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

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

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

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

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