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

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious

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

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 end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Evil has no capital of its own. It is a parasite on goodness.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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

Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

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

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.