a civil war QUOTES

1 " A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the enemy we meet again, with the old ambivalence of love and hate and with all the old guilts, the blood brothers of our childhood. In a civil war – especially in one such as this when the nation shares deep and significant convictions and is not a mere handbasket of factions huddled arbitrarily together by historical happen-so – all the self-divisions of conflicts within individuals become a series of mirrors in which the plight of the country is reflected, and the self-division of the country a great mirror in which the individual may see imaged his own deep conflicts, not only the conflicts of political loyalties, but those more profoundly personal. "

― Robert Penn Warren , The Legacy of the Civil War

2 " An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. "

3 " There are two ways to destroy a country: to involve it in a civil war or to keep all people ignorant by teaching them only religion. "

― Debasish Mridha

4 " The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized. "

― Ken Follett , The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)

5 " Look now,' Vesna's mother continued, 'what do you know, a civil war might break out any minute: Serbs would fight with Croats, Czechs would fight with Slovaks, Hungarians would fight with Jews. how can you be sure of anything?'

'But, Mother, if this happens, then it will such big trouble that nobody would think about a shortage of pantyhose,' protested Vesna.

'You'd be surprised, my dear, to know that people have to live and survive during wars, too. Besides, how do you think we survived communism? "

― Slavenka Drakulić , How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

6 " The goddess smiled. " You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid a civil war among the gods." " It unbalanced the Council," I remembered. " Suddenly there were seven guys and five girls." Hestia shrugged. " It was the best solution, not a perfect one. Now I tend the fire. I fade slowly into the background. No one will ever write epic poems about the deeds of Hestia. Most demigods don't even stop to talk to me. But that is no matter. I keep the peace. I yield when necessary. Can you do this? "

7 " My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars