Careless Quote by Tacitus

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition,…

— Tacitus

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

— Tacitus

They make a desert and call it peace.

— Tacitus

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be…

— Wayne Allyn Root

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

— Arthur Helps

They create a desolation and call it peace.

— Calgacus

They make a desolation and call it peace.

— Anonymous

“They create desolation and call it peace There”

— Mary Beard

Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim…

— Anonymous

Every expansion of civilization makes for peace. In other words, every expansion of a great civilized power means a victory for law, order, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Peace is a costly privilege-to be fought for, attained and won. It comes only from a conquered mind.

— Paul Brunton