A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build…

— Timothy Garton Ash

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from…

— Jim Webb

I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative.…

— Ziad Doueiri

Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip…

— Jane Leavy

Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It will create…

— Kishore Chandra Deo

Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it…

— Geraldine Brooks

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil…

— Uzo Aduba

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured…

— Dennis C. Blair

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then…

— Iyad Allawi

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

— Karin Slaughter

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I…

— Noam Chomsky

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while…

— Cary Fukunaga

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation…

— Harri Holkeri

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal…

— Gary Krist