Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.

Every war is different. It's of its own kind.

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

War is the science of destruction.

War is the province of danger.

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

War is no damn football game.

Hell, this isn’t a pinochle party we’re having. It’s war.

When you go to war it is highly unlikely that it will end with a neat, tidy conclusion.

Nations at war are wild beasts.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

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

Either a war has to be fought, or it doesn't.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

We are muddled into war.

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

War is the business of barbarians.

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

No two wars are identical.