George Carlin Quotes

When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war as you can get.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

War inside countries is all too common.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

Almost certainly there will be vicious wars between the states.

Rebellions broke out, from the full-scale political revolution of Dorr’s rebellion in Rhode Island to urban violence and protest, often by out of work whites taking out their anger on African Americans or Irish Americans. In response, leaders had to come to terms with the role of force in a democracy.

The word 'insurgency' had connotations that really sent a shiver down the spine of folks in Washington, in the United States - for good reason, because it means this is something much bigger than just a few terrorist cells.

It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the world's nations have also been spared the scourge of civil wars, although many have known violence from revolutionary insurrection.

You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country.

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife.

If India wants her bloodbath, she shall have it.

If nothing happens, if we just keep doing what we're doing, tomorrow is not certain. We will see families killing each other. We will see chaos in the country. The day after tomorrow will disappear.... The next civil war in Burundi will absolutely be over land.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.