Accidents Quote by Carl von Clausewitz

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.

— Paul Harris

The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to…

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Victory in war does not depend entirely upon numbers or mere courage; only skill and discipline will insure it.”

— Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

— Anonymous

What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

— Sun Tzu

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power. It is sufficient to estimate the enemy situation correctly…

— Sun Tzu

“When your thinkings are ahead of your enemies; you will have 95% of probabilities to win the war against them, so the more ahead…

— Pedro Acevedo

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

Lack of decisiveness has caused more failures than lack of intelligence or ability

— Anonymous

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

— Felix Frankfurter

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.

— David Mamet