Top 4 Quotes by Philip Bobbitt

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

All life is an experiment. Every important decision is taken with inadequate knowledge by imperfect men and women whom the future will confound. Yet we act nevertheless.

Philip Bobbitt

Taken, Men, Decision

War is not a pathology that, with proper hygiene and treatment, can be wholly prevented. War is a natural condition of the State, which was organized in order to be an effective instrument of violence on behalf of society. Wars are like deaths, which, while they can be postponed, will come when they will come and cannot be finally avoided.

Philip Bobbitt

War, Order, Hygiene

"The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History". Book by Philip Bobbitt, 2003.