Torturing Quote by Larry McMurtry

“Bad and cruel as our people were treated by the whites, not one of them was hurt or molested by our band. (...) The…

— Black Hawk

“The whites were right to be afraid. One day the system would collapse in blood. An insurrection of one. She smiled for a moment,…

— Colson Whitehead

“Wars were giant parties for the ruling elites, who sometimes thought it might be great fun to make the poor kill each other.”

— Jarett Kobek

“could not understand why, at treaty councils with the whites, when white prisoners were brought in, beaten, scarred, and noses burned off, the whites…

— Rosanne Bittner

“Relax now. That’s the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one’s leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.”

— Alan Campbell

“They were there with their tongues cocked and loaded, the only real weapon left to weak folks. The only killing tool they are allowed…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“shock troops in the assault on the last remaining constraints keeping us from going to war all the time. The little darlings were terribly…

— Rachel Maddow

“you whites are so great that you disdain to remember your enemies.”

— Jose Conrad

“They were wounded. They were victims. If only they had everything they'd ever wanted, then they'd be okay. But because they didn't, it was…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.”

— Evan Meekins

“The worst sort of scoundrels took up the chase. Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge…

— Colson Whitehead

“What a splendid little war!”

— John Hayes