Assurance Quote by Thomas Hobbes

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle…

— Thomas Hobbes

war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this…

— Martin Van Creveld

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

— Alexander Hamilton

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after…

— Pope Paul VI

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

— Georges Clemenceau

War is an abstraction.

— Bruce Jackson

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is…

— William C. Bryant