Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

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

War is over ... If you want it.

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

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

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Never was anything great achieved without danger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

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