Concepts Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is…

— Karl Von Clausewitz

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

— George S. Patton

War is not inevitable, but proceeds from definite and removable causes

— Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

— George Orwell

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an…

— Carl von Clausewitz