Deeper Quote by Thomas de Quincey

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and…

— Oriana Fallaci

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

— Fredrik Bajer

War is based on deception.

— Sun Tzu

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

— A. A. Milne

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

— Charles Sumner

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

— Barbara Tuchman

War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as…

— Douglas MacArthur

“War reveals people's deeper nature.' 'I don't like that idea. It would suggest that we need to be put to the test. I think…

— Amélie Nothomb

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