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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. -- Sun Tzu
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. -- Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night... -- Sun Tzu
The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. -- Sun Tzu
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. -- Sun Tzu
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight. -- Sun Tzu
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. -- Sun Tzu
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. -- Sun Tzu
What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. -- Sun Tzu
There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. -- Sun Tzu
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. -- Sun Tzu
Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain. -- Sun Tzu
If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory. -- Sun Tzu
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. -- Sun Tzu
Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. -- Sun Tzu
When the higher officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-chief can tell whether or not he is in a position to fight, the result is ruin. -- Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -- Sun Tzu
He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. -- Sun Tzu
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. -- Sun Tzu
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. -- Sun Tzu
It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle. -- Sun Tzu
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. -- Sun Tzu
With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war. -- John Fusco
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. -- Arthur Wellesley
We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail. -- Fredrik Bajer
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. -- Ulysses S. Grant
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. -- Horatio Alger
The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. -- Sun Tzu
There's no way the writing staff of 'Game of Thrones' haven't read 'The Art of War.' There's definitely an influence on 'Game of Thrones' from this book in both a general way and on the character of Lord Baelish and his strategies. -- Aidan Gillen
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. -- Nelson Mandela
Art should be waged like war. -- Mark Boyle
The Art of War is self-explanatory -- Sun Tzu
War is the highest form of modern art. -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The war brought out all the art in me. -- Horace Pippin
Art is an instrument in the war against the enemy. -- Pablo Picasso
History is remembered by its art, not its war machines. -- James Rosenquist
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money. -- Samuel Butler
Next to war, art is the greatest way to immortalize a reputation. -- Roman Genn
The art of war in its highest point of view is policy. -- Carl von Clausewitz
The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. -- Pablo Picasso
In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it! -- Napoleon Bonaparte
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula -- George S. Patton
Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war. -- Sun Tzu
War is the art of killing each other brutally, diplomacy is the art of killing each other softly. -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill. -- Duke of Wellington
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. -- Jennifer Megan Varnadore
Tactics is the art of using troops in battle; strategy is the art of using battles to win the war -- Carl von Clausewitz
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war. -- Fannie Hurst
I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. -- Robert Barry
The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy. -- Douglas Sirk
I am very interested in and that is what Sun Tzu in his ancient Chinese text calls The Art of War. -- Paul Virilio
Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again. -- Mary Butts
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius. -- George Stillman Hillard
The art of war is like the art of the courtesan; indeed they might be called sisters, since both are slaves of desperation. -- Pietro Aretino
If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world's population, like mental mayonnaise, we'd have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol. -- Jarod Kintz
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. -- Steven Pressfield
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior. -- Steven Pressfield
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. -- Steven Pressfield
It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle. -- Miyamoto Musashi
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war. -- Pal Benko
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers. -- Frederic C. Howe
Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace. -- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought"¦ but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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