Quotes About Balance

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.

You shall love peace as a means to new wars - and the short peace more than the long.

I think people can stand to take themselves just a little less seriously. I'm fighting the war against pretension.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.

Heterosexual love,. is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

We must face the fact that peace must be built on power, as well as upon good will and good deeds.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Peace is produced by war.

To insist on strength ... is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.