“No wise man is ever interested in stupid matters like wars! Wars are always on the agenda of only stupid man!”

“Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!”

“Whoever takes the decision of war, he is surely a stupid man!”

“Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.”

“When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.”