Scipio Africanus Quotes

You can’t have peace without a war.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

It is easier to make war than to make peace.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

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.

Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.

War is an act of force, and to the application of that force there is no limit. Each of the adversaries forces the hand of the other, and a reciprocal action results which in theory can have no limit.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Let them fight it out, friend! Things have gone too far.

Wars occur because people prepare for conflict, rather than for peace.

War is the admission of defeat in the face of conflicting interests.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

If we don't manage to find not just a compromise but a lasting peace agreement, we know perfectly well what the scenario will be. It has a name, it's called war.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. To put it more bluntly, war is terrorism. That is why a 'war on terrorism' is a contradiction in terms.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Those good at war aren't good at peace, and those good at peace aren't good at war.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

Isn't it strange how the leaders of nations can talk so eloquently about peace while they prepare for war? ... There is no way to make peace while preparing for war.