“War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.”
More from Thomas Hobbes on War
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.”
“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
Others on War
Ludwig von Mises
4 quotes“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”
Will Rogers
4 quotes“You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
3 quotes“... War is the sole art looked for in one who rules...”
Erasmus
3 quotes“War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.”
Erich Maria Remarque
2 quotes“The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.”
FDR
2 quotes“War is young men dying and old men talking”
Joe Abercrombie
2 quotes“Those with the least always lose the most in war.”
Carl Sandburg
2 quotes“Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
Herbert Hoover
2 quotes“Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
George Orwell
2 quotes“...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
Herodotus
2 quotes“In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.”
General Douglas MacArthur
2 quotes“In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.”