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War Quotes - page 8


Jean-Baptiste Say | War Quotes
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
Simone De Beauvoir
After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.
Peter Ustinov
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.




Publilius Syrus
We should provide in peace what we need in war.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.
Joseph Biden (Joe) | War Quotes
I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one.
Francois Rabelais
Corn is the sinews of war.
J. G. Ballard
Psychiatrists — the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
George S. Patton
Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.
Carl von Clausewitz
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.
Carl von Clausewitz | War Quotes
Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.




Carl von Clausewitz
...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
Carl von Clausewitz
...in the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
Carl von Clausewitz
...only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
Carl von Clausewitz
The state of crisis is the real war; the equilibrium is nothing but its reflex.
Carl von Clausewitz | War Quotes
To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
Carl von Clausewitz
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
Carl von Clausewitz
War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.
Albert Pike
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
George Santayana
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.


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