"All the armed prophets conquered; all the..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.”

“When evening comes, I return home and go into my study. On the threshold I strip off my muddy, sweaty clothes of everyday, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the antique courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity, reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.”

“He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his.”

“Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic”

“Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.”

“We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.”

“Without victory there is no survival!”

“War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.”

“A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will.”