Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Wars, conflict, its all business. One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero. Numbers sanctify.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

I think we might well ask: How does one destroy his enemy by becoming like him?

Ah, colonel, all’s fair in love and war, you know.

You are allowed to lie for jihad. You are allowed to use any technique in order to defeat your enemy.

Generals make plans. Plans go wrong. And soldiers die.

War not only teaches what man can be, but it teaches also what he must not be.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are.

Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

Cutting down the enemy is the way of strategy, and there is no need for many refinements of it.

The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.

What have you done? What have you given up?' So many things, Cecily. More than you know.

Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

There are times for making war and times for making peace.

Some people are going to have to die or leave.

History offers examples of winning in diplomacy after losing in war.

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

Was there ever a war where only one side bled?