Distance Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, and look differently when near from what…

— Carl von Clausewitz

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

— Carl von Clausewitz

No matter what era you're looking at - war affects things in so many different ways.

— Gary Cole

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look…

— Vivienne Westwood

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

— Anthony Swofford

War affects people in different ways.

— Shakin' Stevens

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in…

— Haris Pasovic

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

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

“Wars have a way of overriding the days just before them. In the looking back, there is such noise and gravity. But we are…

— Thomas Pynchon

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier…

— Doug Liman

War grows out of ordinary human nature.

— Bertrand Russell