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All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost limits.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
To secure peace is to prepare for war.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
[ ... ] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is ... a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is politics by other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Friction is the only concept that more or less corresponds to the factors that distinguish real war from war on paper ...
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the province of danger.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is merely a continuation of politics,
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
...in war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The Statesman who, knowing his instrument to be ready, and seeing War inevitable, hesitates to strike first is guilty of a crime against his country.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
— Carl Von Clausewitz