Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

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

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 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.

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

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

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.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

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

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

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

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

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

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