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

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

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

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

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.

When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.

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

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

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

There was never a bad peace or a good war.

Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

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

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars

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

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

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.

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