Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong
Politics
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(rough translation) War is just/merely politics continued by other means/measures.
Clausewitz, On War
(There’s considerable argument about the “closest” literalist translation, but that argument usually misses the point that war is subordinate to and a special case of politics.)