"The Commander in Chief of the King of Elam, together with his nobles, I cut their throats like sheep. My prancing steeds, trained to harness, plunged into their welling blood as into a river. The wheels of my chariot were bespattered with blood and filth. I filled the plain with the corpses of their warriors like herbage. As to their allies, panic from my onslaught overwhelmed them like a demon. hey abandoned their tents and fled for their lives, crushing the corpses of their troops as they went - in their terror they passed scalding urine and voided their excrement in their chariots" SENNACHERIB, Assyrian Emperor, 691BC

"One has to remark that men ought to either be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries. Of more serious ones they cannot. Therefore , the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does stand fear of revenge" NICCOLLO MACCHIAVELLI

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem" JOSEPH STALIN

"If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles." SUN TZU, The Art of War

"If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods" JOSEPH STALIN

"Today is victory over yourself of yesterday, tomorrow is your victory over lesser men" MIYAMOTO MUSASHI, Shogun.

"To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world" STALIN

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts" SHAKESPEARE

"I know not what Weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" ALBERT EINSTEIN

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" STALIN

"You discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he used to frighten you" ERIC HOFFER

"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" STALIN

"The people who cast the votes do not decide who wins an election. The people who count them do" STALIN

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" ABRAHAM LINCOLN