Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.

War is not a thing one wants.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

War: First, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

War is the science of destruction.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.

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

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

War is a contagion.

War's a profanity because, let's face it, you've got two opposing sides trying to settle their differences by killing as many of each other as they can.

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

War is a profane thing.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

We are muddled into war.

War is about dead people.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

War remains the decisive human failure.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.