We feel the thing we ought to be beating beneath the thing we are.

We fight many battles, but probably the greatest battle we fight is the one with ourselves.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.