Battle Quote by Murray Kempton

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

— Veronica Roth

War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.

— Carl von Clausewitz

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of…

— Smedley Butler

When you have warfare, things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

“They are a different breed of warriors. They don’t see war as an extension of politics; they see it as a life-and-death struggle irrespective…

— Dale Comstock

What’s so civil about war anyway?

— Axl Rose

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or…

— Edmund Burke

This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.

— Joseph Stalin

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help…

— Mark Twain

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or…

— George Orwell

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started…

— Thomas Sowell

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

— Hisham Matar