Bellum Quotes

#1. Si vis pacem, para bellum - If you want peace, prepare for war.

J.B. Salsbury

#2. War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

Desiderius Erasmus

#3. If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

Arinn Dembo

#4. Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. At a certain age, you have to choose between your face and your ass.

Catherine Deneuve

#6. To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

George Berkeley

#7. It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace.
[Lat., Bellum magis desierat, quam pax coeperat.]

Tacitus

#8. I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

Edward Teller

#9. Dulce bellum inexpertis. - War is lovely for those who know nothing about it.

Desiderius Erasmus

#10. Precedents once established are so much positive power.

James Madison

#11. Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Susan Sontag