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Carl Von Clausewitz Inspirational Quotes (81)

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Politics is the womb in which war develops.
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In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
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Only great and general battles can produce great results
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In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
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Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.
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The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.
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There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
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War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.
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The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.
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There is only one decisive victory: the last.
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If we do not learn to regard a war, and the separate campaigns of which it is composed, as a chain of linked engagements each leading to the next, but instead succumb to the idea that the capture of certain geographical points or the seizure of undefended provinces are of value in themselves, we are liable to regard them as windfall profits.
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The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war, it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
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The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
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We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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The best strategy is always to be very strong.
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
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A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
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