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

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.