Julius Caesar Quotes

In war trivial causes produce momentous events.

When you start a military intervention, you do not know what will happen even in the next hour

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

There's never any guarantee at war.

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three-quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty. ... war is the realm of chance. No other human activity gives it greater scope; no other has such incessant and varied dealings with this intruder. Chance makes everything more uncertain and interferes with the whole course of events.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of nerve and fortitude, or be over in one brilliant flash, an extravagant conflagration of flame and blood and waste.

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.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

War always takes you by surprise.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

The chief incalculable in war is the human will.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.