Human mind Quote by William Ellery Channing

All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course…

— Washington Irving

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Does it not sometimes happen in life that our actions are solely for an enemy, so as to stand up to him, to confound…

— Georges Rodenbach

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that…

— Nelson Mandela

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

— Napoleon Hill

“So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered,…

— Christian D. Larson

War is simply a battle of egos. A desire to surpass your adversary.

— Anonymous

The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional…

— Alfred Adler

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than aught…

— Albert Pike

“The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception”

— Steven Pinker