"War is always a matter of doing evil……" — B. H. Liddell Hart

"War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it."

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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65 Quotes by B. H. Liddell Hart

B. H. Liddell Hart has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real…
The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security…
The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge…
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather…
Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological…
A modern state is such a complex and interdependent fabric that it offers a target highly sensitive to a sudden…
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present…
The principle of compulsory service, embodied in the system of conscription, lias been the means by which modem dictators and…
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best…
In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that,…

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More Evil Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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