Carl von Clausewitz Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds; it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, Kindness, War

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

• Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Mean, Goal, Doe

• 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

• Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult. The difficulties accumulate and end by producing a kind of friction that is inconceivable unless one has experienced war. ... Countless minor incidents - the kind you can never really foresee - combine to lower the general level of performance, so that one always falls short of the intended goal.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Fall, Simple

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