Hillary Clinton Quotes

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 the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

There's never any guarantee at war.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

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

War is the province of chance. In no sphere of human activity is such a margin to be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance, and deranges the course of events.

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

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

Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel. These generals don’t even know where the tunnel is.

If you guys don’t go through the enemy in six weeks, we’ll disown you. But then the hard work begins... We have lit a fuse, and we don’t know what’s at the other end- a nuke, a hand grenade, or a dud?

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

Wars: You know how you start, but you never know how you end.

Haven’t we learned that when you go to war, the outcome is unpredictable.

War is uncertain, precisely because it is political and human.

In wartime you never know what is going to happen, you never know whether you will still be around tomorrow, and that is a great leveller.

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

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

No other human activity is so continuously or universally bound up with chance. And through the element of chance, guesswork and luck come to play a great part in war.