Adversity Quote by James Wolfe

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

First of all, war is a very, very difficult thing to deal with, even on the good days.

— Saxby Chambliss

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

— Ron Wyden

Going to war is an easy decision.

— Jesse Ventura

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 admission of failure

— K.J. Parker

War, and the preparation for war, are the two greatest obstacles to human progress, fostering a vicious cycle of arms buildups, violence and poverty.

— Oscar Arias

War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what…

— Malcolm Lowry

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what…

— Malcolm Lowry

War is evitable if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits.

— Frans de Waal

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

— Ezra Pound