Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms

Laws are inoperative in war

During war we imprison the rights of man.

War knows no law except that of might.

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

World history is tragic.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

My mind revolts and my soul cannot support the weight of so much evil: theft, rape, pillage, deaths, and murders, fires and devastation; the virgin violated, the cry of the widow and the orphan; the father armed against his son and each one looking for his brother to kill him; of those who have migrated; of the thousands who have fled; of the bodies stretched out in the public streets; of the bones which cover the fields and of so much blood shed on Venezuela’s soil.

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

When the guns boom, the arts die.

We must accept the possibility of bloodshed if we are to bring about order.

War and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

What’s so civil about war anyway?

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.