Carl von Clausewitz Quotes about Peace

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Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace, War, Womb

Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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.

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace, War, Mean

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace, War, Limits

"On War (Book 1)". Book by Carl von Clausewitz, 1832.

War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

Carl von Clausewitz

Peace, Real, War

Carl von Clausewitz (1943). “On war: Translated from the German by O.J. Matthijs Jolles”