Human history makes everlasting peace seem possible only in theory.

War is to some people the solution to peace.

You can be right and still lose the fight.

The uncertainty of the profitability of a great idea is millions of times greater than that of the profitability of a good strategy.

Religion makes people kill each other. Science supplies them with weapons.

Expecting defeat more than halves the potency of our effort, and more than quadruples that of our opponent’s effort.

We sometimes spend a trillion on a fight over a hundred.

Not being intimidated has the power to intimidate.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.