Pax Hominibus Bonae Voluntatis by Aleister Crowley in International, Dec 1917.

“We need not be afraid of an armistice; time is on our side, not theirs.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “Now, with regard to German atrocities, they may be perhaps a little more systematic than atrocities on the other side; but that is evidence of more system, not of more ferocity.”
  2. "Where such ideas are pushed to the limit the results are utterly abominable. We need only refer to the destruction of one of the finest races of the world, the American Indian, which was due to nothing but the conviction that he was a remorseless and treacherous savage."
  3. “I learned also that my best chance of defeating him was to know what he was going to do before he did it; to read his mind in his eye and his wrist.”
  4. "I am told that the German offers are not sincere. Then call the bluff by agreeing to the principle of conference."
  5. “The mildest of animals, if it feels itself cornered, will resort to every means of defense. Queensberry rules were not invented for men who are scrapping in a life and death combat.”