It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading

I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.