Civilians Quotes · Page 4

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

— Bob Casey, Jr

Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

— Theodore C. Sorensen

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

— Wesley Clark

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the…

— Anonymous

I messed up on the Vietnam Special, because I gave it to civilians? Only military men can handle that.

— Si Robertson

Protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is both a moral duty and a strategic imperative.

— Lloyd Austin

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

— Stuart Symington

Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians…

— Bashar al-Assad

Fighting Maoism isn't like fighting an enemy across the border. They are civilians. The military and paramilitary have been trained to fight…

— Kishore Chandra Deo

I took a trip in 2004, a year after the war started in Iraq. I played music on the streets of Baghdad…

— Michael Franti

We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

War traumatizes soldier and civilian alike; warfare is a profit-making racket; warfare resolves nothing that negotiations can't resolve better; the weapons we…

— Madeline Taylor

Under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians in conflict falls on the belligerents. Under military occupation, responsibility for the welfare of…

— Kofi Annan

Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a…

— M.I.A

People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. I've never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

There is an undeniable economic and cultural disconnect between many of those who volunteer to serve and those who choose to remain…

— Ruben Gallego

Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession…

— Barry Goldwater

Any action taken will be against the terrorist network of Bin Laden… As for the Taleban, they can surrender the terrorists or…

— Tony Blair

Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they…

— John Yoo

My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some…

— Charlie Brooker

“But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not…

— Richard Rhodes

The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless…

— Jimmy Carter

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

— George W. Bush

In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.

— Ari Shavit

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open…

— Bear Grylls

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of…

— M.I.A

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

— John Podhoretz

“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use…

— Rand Paul

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

— George Clooney

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would…

— Ariel Sharon

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

— Cyril Connolly

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

— Gijs de Vries

I think any time you construct, you know, plan an operation, you have to account for civilians that are part of that…

— Lloyd Austin

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

— Robert M. Gates

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those…

— Martin Van Creveld

“In general, nuclear workers are allowed to absorb 5 rem per year, and civilians are allowed 0.5 rem per year.”

— James Mahaffey