Famous Quotes / Karl von Clausewitz
12 Quotations by Karl von Clausewitz
- 1. All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often ten ...
- 2. Boldness becomes rarer the higher the rank.
- 3. Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
- 4. Everything is very simple in war, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate ...
- 5. In war, more than anywhere else in the world, things happen differently from what we had expected, a ...
- 6. Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
- 7. The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in wa ...
- 8. The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on t ...
- 9. War is nothing but a continuation of politics by other means.
- 10. War is only a continuation of state policy by other means.
- 11. War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of politics by other means.
- 12. What this task requires in the way of higher intellectual gifts is a sense of unity and a power of j ...