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

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

I can’t tell you the number of times I looked down at what was going on on the ground, or I was engaged in a fight somewhere, and I knew within a couple of minutes how I was going to screw up the enemy. And I knew it because I’d done so much reading.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

I gave ‚em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I’d have done the same thing.

It is often useful, if an enemy happens to see you, to pretend that you have not seen him. Or it may sometimes be useful to pretend that you have other men with you. I did this once in the Boer War when, having crept up a donga to look at a Boer fort, I was seen by the enemy, and they came out to capture me.

Our favorite holding period is forever.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it’s not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It’s more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

A siege is an act of war.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

We make war that we may live in peace.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

My business is to prevent the future.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.