Either war is obsolete, or men are.

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

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

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

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

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

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.

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.

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

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

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

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing uptheir numbers.

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

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