Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant

From the famous speach of Calgacus before the battle of Mons Graupius :

“….. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant”.

“….. To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire ; and they make a solitude and call it peace”.

( Tacitus , The life of Agricola, 30,7)

The Calgacus sentiment can be contrasted to “peace given to the world” which was frequently inscribed on Roman medals!

The ratio of Force and Right : on this subject I recall two pieces I read at school :

The Wolf and the Lamb by Phaedrus

and

The Melian Dialogue in the The History of Peloponnesian War by Thucydides .