Adversaries Quote by Jules Verne

Soldier blue in the barren wastes. Hunting and killing their game. Raping the women and wasting the men. The only good Indians are tame.

— Iron Maiden

“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone chokers, the…

— Thomas King

“Atrocities were expected in both European and Native conflicts. And yet, the English had to admit that compared to what was typical of European…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“True, duels were fought by convention at dawn in isolated locations to ensure the privacy of the gentlemen involved. But were they fought behind…

— Amor Towles

When a white army battles Indians and wins, it is called a great victory, but if they lose it is called a massacre.

— Chiksika

“Colonel, my ass. That rotten Indian hater will only cause more problems out here for the real Army. If the man kept harassing and…

— Rosanne Bittner

“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”

— Tacitus

“A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of…

— Joseph Conrad

“...any eye at all practiced in the signs of a frontier warfare, might easily have traced all those unerring evidences of the ruthless results…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“Under the Republic dueling was forbidden, but it was not in the German character to forego a custom so dear to our young fire-eaters…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him…

— Mark Twain