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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.