Cato the Elder Quotes

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Let no one refer to the sword of Napoleon I as the instrument of progress and civilization!

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

Let us first render ourselves popular by mighty deeds, and afterwards we will speak of peace and clemency. In the disputes of others let us always put ourselves on the side of the stronger. If we would become rich in men and cattle, we cannot help making enemies; but they will not roar for ever.

The whole history of the world, on its broader lines, has been one of race conflict, wars, subjugation or extinction.

The vanquishment of the heathen consists in obliging them to destroy one another.

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all they possess, to see those they love in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.

One does not make war except to preserve one's own possessions or to acquire those of others.

England is the natural enemy of France, an enemy greedy, ambitious, unjust, and false. The invariable and cherished object of her policy is, if not the destruction of France, at least her abasement, her humiliation, her ruin.

Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

What's a country? It's just an administrative unit, a glorified municipality. Why do we imbue it with esoteric meaning and protect it with nuclear bombs? I can't bow down to a municipality... it's just not intelligent. The bastards will do what they have to do, and we'll do what we have to do. Even if they annihilate us, we'll go down on the other side.

Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

Every US President has to have a war.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: "I came, I saw, I conquered.

[Vladimir] Putin needs wars to legitimize his position.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.

War is always a struggle in which each contender tries to annihilate the other. Besides using force, they will have recourse to all possible tricks and stratagems to achieve the goal.