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Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”

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Marcus Tullius Cicero was a prominent philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, and writer during the late Roman Republic. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown, but he was active in the 1st century BC. Known for his profound thoughts and exceptional literary style, Cicero has had a lasting impact on Western culture. more

“What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.”

Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin

“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”

War Dies Gun Passing Passings Bells Monstrous Cattle Stuttering

Author:Wilfred Owen

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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