Civil war Quote by Blaise Pascal

“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the…

— Ralph Ellison

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

— Herodotus

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or…

— Anthony Minghella

“Why do they call them civil wars when they always are so extraordinarily uncivil?”

— Elizabeth Fitch

Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life’s sanctity, is a “civil war” waged by humanity against itself.

— Daisaku Ikeda

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”

— James M. McPherson

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country…

— Anonymous

What’s so civil about war anyway?

— Axl Rose

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

— Francois Fenelon

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

— Newt Gingrich