Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Whenever you have a possibility of going in two ways, either for peace or for war, for peaceful methods of for military methods, in the present age there is a strong prejudice for the peaceful ones. War seldom ever leads to good results.

Maybe I couldn't be dafter, But I keep wondering if this time we settle our differences before a war instead of after.

What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

In the Mediterranean you have a choice. Either you fight or you cooperate.

It is easier to lead men to combat and stir up their passions than to temper them and urge them to the patient labors of peace.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

It's very easy to get into a war, but I don't know how you extricate from one.

At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.

To make peace, it is necessary to know how to make war.

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

We must conquer war or war will conquer us.

The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.