There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
Know yourself and you will win all battles.
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.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but theopportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
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.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
All warfare is based on deception.
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
