Civil war Quote by Anthony H. Cordesman

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

— Hamid Karzai

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.

— Newt Gingrich

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

— Victor Hugo

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of…

— Erich Fromm

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

— Nuruddin Farah

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

— Herodotus

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

— Victor Hugo

A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.

— Michel de Montaigne

War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.

— Victor Hugo

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

— Conrad Black

How is it possible to have a civil war?

— George Carlin