If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to ribbons or cripple a man for life: it needed only a quarter of an hour.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!