Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

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

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

The unknown is the governing condition of war.

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

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

The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible.

The events of war are subject to great uncertainty.

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

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 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.

War is the science of destruction.

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

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

War is the province of danger.

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife.

One looks ahead to a war and imagines it as a single, final, absolute event. It is nothing of the kind. War is a condition, like peace, with good days and bad days, moods of optimism and despair.

War is always a very blunt instrument and almost always produces uncertain results.

In war everything is uncertain, and calculations have to be made with variable quantities …. all military action is intertwined with psychological forces and effects.

I do not like wars. They have uncertain outcomes.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

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

A fight is a fight and anything can happen.