In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

One drop of truth can outweigh an ocean of lies

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.