The Jewish Wisdom Database

If a wolf comes to kill you, you are not bound to pat its back.

If he is a fighter, he is no writer; if a writer, no fighter.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Nations...borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

We must work and struggle to redeem our land, and fight with the courage of those for whom there is no possible retreat.

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, water to drink!

Rejoice not when your enemy falls and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles!

When a man's ways please Him, the Lord causes even his enemies to make peace with him.

One does not wage war, whether profane or holy, before one offers peace, as it is written [Deuteronomy (Devarim) 20:10]---When you come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it!

The nations wish to vex the Lord, but cannot. So what do they do? They vex Israel.

If you are a man of the sword, you can't claim to be a man of the book; and if you are a man of the book, you will not be a man of the sword.

To start a revolution is not hard; to end it well and launch a peaceful economy is beyond our powers.

Are you for us or for our adversaries?

The side that breaks a truce during a war will lose.

Even on the threshold of war, we [Jews] are bidden to begin in no other way than with peace, for it is written: 'When you draw near a city to fight, first offer it peace.'