Civil war Quote by Alexander Masters

“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.”

— Bryant McGill

“Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust rather than…

— Madeline Miller

“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village;…

— Thomas Carlyle

“One man's warfare is another man's welfare.”

— Timothy Pina

“It’s necessary that everyone does his duty and works in his place - devotes himself to constructing a body of fundamental values - against…

— Guillaume Faye

“We have first seized the front line of trenches, then the second and the third, and our adversary, shut up in his retreat, in…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“These are my soldiers. Standing single-file line in their assembly uniforms. Black shirts, black pants, black boots. No guns. Left fist pressed against their…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“the way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy.”

— Jodi Picoult

“All war is civil war, for it is always man against man, spilling his own blood, tearing out his own entrails.”

— Fenelon Bonavides Neto

“Nothing unites a community so much as common cause against an external enemy, yet, in the same moment, that enemy becomes the essential support…

— Alan W. Watts

“One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any…

— Stephen Prothero