Carl von Clausewitz Quotes

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

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.

Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

War is the science of destruction.

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

You do have to change things as warfare changes.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The Artillery Barrage: The last reasoning of Kings.

If your goal is to destroy ISIS, there needs to be a ground force. It could be American or foreign.

I have need of Rigaud. He is violent. I want him for carrying on war; and that war is necessary to me.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war game; that is, the representation of a miniature battle between the forces of two kingdoms

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

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

My sentence is for open war.

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.