Civil war Quote by Louis Menand

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of…

— Michel Foucault

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

— Johnny Flora

“People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was…

— G.J. Meyer

“Any political philosophy is perfect in a given moment...but moments are fleeting.”

— Michele Poague

“The logical conclusion of any political expansion surely was equally detrimental, equally devastating, if and when it happened to be successful?”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Strive for political ideaology but do not hinder progress in the name of your ideology. That would simply be selfish.”

— Tim J. Brooks

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

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

— James M. McPherson

“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”

— Ayn Rand

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”

— Ralph Miliband

“But in many other cases, just the opposite takes place, and the process of political centralization also ushers in an era of greater absolutism.”

— Daron Acemoğlu