As soon as the expenditure of energy in war becomes so great that the value of the political aim can no longer keep a balance with it, the aim must be abandoned and peace must be the result.
War is an act of violence, to the use of which there are no limits.
In such dangerous matters as war, the errors which arise from good nature are precisely the worst.
War knows no winners; every military triumph actually turns out to be a defeat for all involved.
War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.
War is an act of violence to compel the enemy to fulfill our will.
