Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
What is evil? - Whatever springs from weakness.
In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
