Kongo Civil War/sack of S%C3%A3o Salvador

Famous quotes containing the words civil, war and/or sack:

    “... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the privileges of the underprivileged.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “You can’t divide a business like a sack of apples.”
    —Edward L. Bernds (b. 1911)