War Is Politics By Other Means Quotes

#1. War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Phil Klay

#2. War is politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#3. Politics is economics by other means, and war is politics by other means.

Stan Goff

#4. Any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.

Vladimir Lenin

#5. War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#6. War is merely the continuation of politics by other means

Carl Von Clausewitz

#7. It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

Leonard Woolf

#8. Remember, my boy, I never fight for the pleasure of wielding weapons. War, for me, is simply politics by other means.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

#9. To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

Tariq Ali

#10. War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#11. War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

Alfred Adler

#12. War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.

Norman Finkelstein

#13. What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means,

Alasdair MacIntyre

#14. Politics is merely war by other means.
-an old Andorian saying

David Mack

#15. While von Clausewitz said, 'War is the continuation of policy (politics) by other means,' when considering the welfare of our men and women in uniform, their families, our veterans and survivors, don't let politics drive your decisions.

Joe Heck