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

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

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

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.

Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.

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

Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

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

Know yourself and you will win all battles.

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.