Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? Victor Hugo
A war between Europeans is a civil war. Victor Hugo
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Victor Hugo
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. John Adams
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper. Hubert H. Humphrey
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. Leo Tolstoy
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. Ann Coulter
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. George Orwell
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. George Orwell
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. William S. Burroughs
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. George Orwell
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. Charles Wilson
No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote. Hillary Clinton