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"There isn't a viler creature on earth than a politician who sends the children of others to the war but not his own children!"
"There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."
"War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods."
"It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century."
"But the pistol, this Walther...it was as if it had been made for the express purpose of shooting people. With a chill Richie realized that was why it had been made. What else could you do with a pistol? Use it to light your cigarettes?"
Explore more quotes by Karl Von Clausewitz
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
"War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means."
"The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response."
"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
"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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