Wisdom is the sword and ignorance is the enemy

“Not a single page of Buddhist history has ever been lurid with the light of inquisitorial fires, or darkened with the smoke of heretic or heathen cities ablaze, or red with blood of the guiltless victims of religious hatred. Buddhism wields only one sword, the sword of Wisdom, and recognizes only one enemy - ignorance. This is the testimony of history, and is not to be gain-said.”

Professor Bapat "2500 years of Buddhism"