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The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements.
— Jennifer Megan Varnadore
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
— Sun Tzu
Intelligence won wars, not brute force.
— Rick Riordan
Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.
— Sun Tzu
The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.
— Bryant McGill
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The art of war," I told him, "is to make the enemy do your bidding.
— Bernard Cornwell
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
— Steven Pressfield
The first way to lose a state is to neglect the art of war; the first way to gain a state is to be skilled in the art of war.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.
— Mary Butts
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
— Steven Pressfield
In a similar way, The Art of War pinpoints anger and greed as fundamental causes of defeat.
— Sun Tzu
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— Daniel H. Pink
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.
— Mary Rose O'Reilley
When weak, act strong.
— Rick Riordan
War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him
— Sun Tzu
The art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..
— John Geddes
When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.
— Gerhard Richter
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game ... speak the truth and hear the truth.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
war, the human antithesis of art
— Campbell McGrath
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation.
— Pietro Aretino
Nagasaki was an embarrassment to the art of war
— Don DeLillo
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.
— Frederic C. Howe
Anything worthwhile is opposed. Steven Pressfield (War of Art) calls this the Resistance.
— Michael Hyatt
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.
— Sun Tzu
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The Art of War is self-explanatory
— Sun Tzu
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
— George Stillman Hillard
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.
— Edward Gibbon
The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The saying 'the arts aid the body' is for samurai of other regions. For samurai of the Nabeshima clan the arts bring ruin to the body.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Art is the war against what we do not choose to feel. It's the battle of color, words, sound, and shape, and it rages for or against love.
— Tarryn Fisher
War is the highest form of modern art.
— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
— Samuel Butler
If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
— Lionel Suggs
Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy.
— Douglas Sirk
There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
— Roger Zelazny
It is the business of a general to be serene and inscrutable, impartial and self-controlled.
— Sun Tzu
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.
— Fredrik Bajer
Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another. — Jenim Dibie
The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.
— Kuroda Nagamasa
Deception is the art of war.
— James Patterson
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.
— Fannie Hurst
The art of war is the art of deception.
— Sun Tzu
The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
— Arthur Wellesley
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.
— Ambrose Bierce
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
— Miyamoto Musashi
The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
— Arthur Miller
The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?
— Anne Frank