"War is a conflict of great interests which……" — Carl von Clausewitz
"War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others."
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Carl von Clausewitz
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97 Quotes by Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz has 97 quotes on this site.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light…
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
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Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends…
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
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Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The hockey lockout of 1994 - 1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering... and can now get down to…
— Conan O'Brien
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable…
— Stuart Chase
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality,…
— Seneca the Younger
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No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.
— Menachem Begin
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Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial…
— Anwar Sadat
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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We should not give up and say that the situation is hopeless. There is still our conscience, there is still…
— Lidia Yusupova
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Though it's a film about cross-border love, there isn't a word of politics in it. Forget politics, there isn't slap,…
— Yash Chopra
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