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

Quote by Herodotus about war, peace

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, suffering, war, human imperfections, world

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about civilization, danger, nation, peace, war, people

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about war, civilization, history, world

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about prosperity, destruction, civilization, force, war, human imperfections, world

Polarization affects families and groups of friends. It's a paralyzing situation. A civil war of opinion.

Quote by Mick Jagger about opinion, war

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about civilization, circumstances, danger, man, war

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

Quote by Sean Penn about war, medicine, attack, nation, americans

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

Quote by Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon about war, man