The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
– Ken Follett
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- If we’re all aggressive, obedient solders [sic], who’s going to write the poems and play the blues and go on anti-war protest marches? – Ken Follett
- It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. – Tariq Ali
- To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war. – Eugen RosenstockHuessy
- Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote. – Ken Follett
- He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life. – Ken Follett
- … people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they’ve got. – Ken Follett
- Proportion is the heart of beauty. – Ken Follett
- No one’s an angel – especially if he’s a man – Ken Follett
- you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig. – Ken Follett
- Hard work should be rewarded by good food. – Ken Follett
- Aliena’s brother, Richard, sometimes reminded her of her father, with a look or a gesture, and that was when she felt a surge of affection. – Ken Follett
- It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing. – Ken Follett
- Englishmen did not speak to strangers on trains … – Ken Follett
- A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people’s washing. – Ken Follett
- Why do you have to be the same as the others? …Most of them are stupid. – Ken Follett
- Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed. – Ken Follett
- Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere. – Ken Follett
- War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
- The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity. – Anthony T Hincks
- Truth is the first casualty of war. – Sophie Masson
- In a war, the first casualty is human dignity. – Paulo Coelho
- Love is always the first casualty of a religious war, the second is Truth and the third…Humanity. – Jason Versey
- The first casualty of war is casual wear. – Brian Spellman
- A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes. – Eli Ashpence
- A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war – Freedom to the people. – Jim
- 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
- One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No ‘poof.’ No flash of light. No explosion. – Michael Grant
- All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. – Sebastian Faulks
- Feeling its power, one Civil War paper trumpeted that Milton and Homer were for another age but for this one was the New York Herald. – Harold Holzer
- Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. – Charles Duhigg
- …he was not so much a human as a civil war. – HG Wells
- No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe. – Aaron AA Smith
- I realized then that all of the problems in my life that I thought were unsolvable were in fact solvable-”except for having just jumped. – Ken Baldwin
- War is an episode, a crisis, a fever the purpose of which is to rid the body of fever. So the purpose of a war is to end the war. – William Faulkner
- The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- We are at war. War has a way of stripping us of perspective. War is about life and death, and it paints everything in shades of now or never. – Amy Harmon
- They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong. – Robert Jackson Bennett
- It is always easier to promote war than peace, easier to end the peace than end the war, because peace is fragile and war is durable. – Mark Kurlansky
- War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse. – Alan Alda