Carl von Clausewitz Quotes:
Ocupation: Military Historian
Life: July 1, 1780 - November 16, 1831
Birthday: July 1
Death: November 16
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.
source: Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press
topic: Art, Kindness, War, Kind Hearted
