Quotes with tug-of-war

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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
    On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz 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.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • John Abbott War is the science of destruction.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Lewis Mumford War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • John Dryden War is the trade of Kings.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller War is the ultimate tool of politics.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benito Mussolini War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.
    Speech to the Chamber of Deputies (28 April 1939), quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 2
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Georges Clemenceau War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bayard Rustin War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Bertrand Russell War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Mitchell War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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  • André Malraux War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Mark Twain War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War therefore is an act of violence intended to compel our opponent to fulfil our will.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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