I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
There was never a bad peace or a good war.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
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.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.