Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
Never was anything great achieved without danger
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
