Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal. — Carl von Clausewitz Abundance Copy Share Image
The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ...… — Carl von Clausewitz Commanders Copy Share Image
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you… — Carl von Clausewitz Absolutes Copy Share Image
...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the… — Carl von Clausewitz Giving Copy Share Image
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end. — Carl von Clausewitz Audacious Copy Share Image
No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war. — Carl von Clausewitz Campaigns Copy Share Image
“peace is maintained by the equilibrium of forces, and will continue just as long as this equilibrium exists, and no longer.” — Carl von Clausewitz Equilibrium Copy Share Image
The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be… — Carl von Clausewitz Action Copy Share Image
Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“Von der Goltz in excuse for the action of the late President Kruger in 1899: "The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to… — Carl von Clausewitz War Copy Share Image
“steam boiler, delivering so and so many pounds of steam to its engines as long as the envelope can contain the pressure;… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“(1) War becomes a completely isolated act, which arises suddenly, and is in no way connected with the previous history of the… — Carl von Clausewitz History Copy Share Image
This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings… — Carl von Clausewitz Chance Copy Share Image
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of… — Carl von Clausewitz Action Copy Share Image
There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. — Carl von Clausewitz Balance Copy Share Image
A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing… — Carl von Clausewitz Campaigns Copy Share Image
What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make… — Carl von Clausewitz Action Copy Share Image
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right,… — Carl von Clausewitz Boldness Copy Share Image
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant… — Carl von Clausewitz Battle Copy Share Image
Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as… — Carl von Clausewitz Aliens Copy Share Image
War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces… — Carl von Clausewitz Action Copy Share Image
War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder.… — Carl von Clausewitz Chance Copy Share Image
“...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition… — Carl von Clausewitz Essence Copy Share Image
Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
