Calculations Quote by Livy Download Open image “Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.” — Livy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calculations Upset War
As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently! — Pitirim Sorokin Copy Share Image
“The true cost of war can't be measured in dollars, infrastructure, or body counts. It is tomorrows, wrung out of hope by yesterdays that… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“War is the supreme mathematics problem. It strains our skulls, yet we work out the sums, believing we have pressed the most monstrous quantities… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning. — David M. Shoup Copy Share Image
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war. — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
“Servius Sulpicius and M. Tullius were consuls the next year: nothing worth mentioning happened.” — Livy Copy Share Image
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal. — Livy Copy Share Image
“In ancient Greece more than one royal house was guilty of crime which became the stuff of tragedy: now Rome was to follow the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you… — Livy Copy Share Image
“There is never any lack at Athens of tongues ready and willing to stir up the passions of the common people; this kind of… — Livy Copy Share Image
“[Rhodian delegation:] Every city contains wicked citizens from time to time and an ignorant populace all the time.” — Livy Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
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