Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.

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.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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.

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.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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