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I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours.
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
Then I might move on to the cutting. — Marc Guggenheim
This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
— Charles Kennedy
I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.
— Andry Rajoelina
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
— Marianne Williamson
This? I thought, after a twenty-year civil war: This? Armageddon I expected; but Armani I did not.
— William Dalrymple
A foreign war is a lot milder than a civil war.
— Michel De Montaigne
In a civil war ... every side is wrong. It's hopeless to try to untangle it. Everyone is a victim.
— Philip K. Dick
You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict
— Juan Williams
You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.
— Adrian McKinty
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
— Smedley Butler
A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
According to Margaret Mitchell, the Civil War destroyed a civilization of unsurpassable amenity, chivalry, and grace.
— Pat Conroy
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
— Ali Khamenei
(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)
— Nancy B. Brewer
Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
— Nancy B. Brewer
You might be a redneck if more than one living relative is named after a Southern Civil War general.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Every war, when viewed from the undistorted perspective of life's sanctity, is a "civil war" waged by humanity against itself.
— Daisaku Ikeda
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
— Victor Hugo
Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good.
— Robin Williams
The state of Europe is so bad that I cannot see any future in Europe other than its Islamization or a civil war
— Dennis Prager
And when there is the possibility of peace, a new fight erupts, based on an old complaint, and which some people call justice adn others madness.
— Nuruddin Farah
Polarization affects families and groups of friends. Its a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.
— Mick Jagger
I do not support a civil war. I don't want to be policeman of the world. But we can't back off of this.
— John Kasich
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.
— Elbridge Gerry
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
— Dan Savage
Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
— Irving Thalberg
Harriet Tubman was a spy for the United States of America Union Army during the Civil War. 9.
— Stephen R. Daily
A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.
— Charles Inglis
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.
— Allen West
Voroshilov was a hard-riding, hard-drinking military crony of civil-war days.
— Kliment Voroshilov
Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over
— Abraham Lincoln
Offering thanks in the midst of tragedy is an American tradition, . even during a bloody Civil War.
— Abraham Lincoln
That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.
— Nuruddin Farah
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?
— Jon Voight
To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.
— Paul Craig Roberts
What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?
— Frances Hardinge
How is it possible to have a civil war?
— George Carlin
If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.
— Abraham Lincoln
He was wearing a little bag of "Mojo" around his neck.
— Nancy B. Brewer
A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
— David Icke
It would be altogether simpler if the rugged man before her wore gray, but instead he would be handsomely attired in Union blue.
— A.M. Heath
How a member of the church - one who had read the Good Lord's bible - could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.
— Jay Grewal
Are you a communist?"
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism. — Ernest Hemingway,
"No I am an anti-fascist"
"For a long time?"
"Since I have understood fascism. — Ernest Hemingway,
This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
— H.L. Mencken
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
— Barack Obama
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
— Rebecca Latimer Felton
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
— Anson Mount
Companies aren't families. They're battlefields in a civil war.
— Charles Duhigg
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse.
— Isaac R. Trimble
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
— Cary Fukunaga
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
— Abraham Lincoln
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi
AND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
— Alexander H. Stephens
Nor should the U.S. military be forced to remain in Iraq essentially as an army for one side of a civil war.
— Peter DeFazio
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
— Herodotus
England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen.
— Len Deighton
I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.
— Victor Hugo
Jealousy is a kind of Civil War in the Soul, where Judgment and Imagination are at perpetual Jars.
— Various
Any kingdom divided by civil war is doomed. A family splintered by feuding will fall apart.
— Anonymous
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.
— Michael Shaara
I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.
— Larry Niven
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
— Aberjhani
I come from a stupid family. During the civil war my great uncle fought for the west.
— Rodney Dangerfield
[The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).
— George Orwell
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin.
— John Fund
It's a civil war, and Arjuna knows a lot of people who are on the opposite side of the battlefield - they've been his friends.
— Frederick Lenz
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
— Douglas Brinkley
The Lebanese civil war was not between the Lebanese; it was a holy war declared on the Christians.
— Brigitte Gabriel
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
— Umberto Eco
Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution.
— Clint Johnson
Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars.
— Newt Gingrich
No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.
— Aaron A.A. Smith
When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.
— Sergei Lavrov