Civil war Quote by Ishmael Beah

Some people tried to hurt us to protect themselves, their family and communities...This was one of the consequences of civil war. People stopped trusting…

— Ishmael Beah

“decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest.”

— Tony Judt

“Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends”

— Johnny Flora

“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the…

— Robert Penn Warren

“The result of these shared experiences was a closeness unknown to all outsiders. Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their relationship is…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy…

— Isaac Asimov

“Quite often, people inaccurately comment about the villains of the South and the heroes of the North. Such statements cause bitter debates. Thus, it…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw

“He realized that trust between people is what makes us happy. Any totalitarian state is based on betrayal. It needs people to inform on…

— Oliver Bullough

“Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about…

— Donald Rothberg

“What they had both thought was safety proved to have been the camouflage of an enemy who works in terms of friendship, trust and…

— Graham Greene

“In war, government and their armies were a threat, but it was so often the neighbors who damned or saved you”

— Diana Gabaldon

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin