Carl von Clausewitz Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• ...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Giving, Intellectual

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.193, Princeton University Press

• All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Weakness, Humans

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.256, Princeton University Press

• The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest.... If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Strong, War, Long

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