We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here. . .

Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.