Acts of violence Quote by Carl von Clausewitz Download Open image “War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.” — Carl von Clausewitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acts of violence Limits Peace Violence War
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. — George Washington Copy Share
War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war. — Keir Hardie Copy Share Image
War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man,… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities;… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
After we have thought out everything carefully in advance and have sought and found without prejudice the most plausible plan, we must not be ready to abandon it at the slightest provocation. should this certainty be lacking, we must tell ourselves that nothing is accomplished in warfare without daring; that the nature of war certainly does not let us see… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere twilight - like the… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
There was a man named Robert Dear who in court said he was a warrior for the babies, whose ex-wife talked about his Christian… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“By the time they're out of preschool, most children have already seen thousands of acts of violence.” — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that… — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention? Have they nothing to lose? Or are they simply bored and spit balling issues that have always been there? Can… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are.… — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
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