We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof and there was a yellow- brown smoke column going up into the air. It didn't hit me all that much then, but when I think of it now — I slaughtered those people. I murdered them.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

A civilised man is someone who has discovered something more satisfying than combat.

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.