Quotes of: Civil-war Keyword

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

Benjamin Franklin

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Bruce Jackson

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

Bertrand Russell

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Cyril Connolly

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

Charles Evans Hughes

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

C. L. R. James

The final outcome of a war is often determined by the degree of initiative shown on each side.

Chiang Kai-shek

But they were going to war anyway and they were going to bully and pressure countries to vote for it.

Clare Short

Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.

Douglas Haig

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

Dylan Moran

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Ezra Stiles

From the moment this war began, there was, for this state, only one policy possible, neutrality.

Eamon de Valera

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

Gijs de Vries

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

George Washington

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

George Washington

It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

Hillary Clinton