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

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

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

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

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

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

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.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve 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.

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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

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