All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
“Lions don't leave society in the hands of government. Government is second in command - civilians, chief commander.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered… — Cofer Black Copy Share Image
Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed. — Sonia Gandhi Copy Share Image
At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
Well, the U.N. Security Council resolution 1973 is very clear. It says all necessary measures to be taken to protect civilians and… — Mike Jackson Copy Share Image
Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending in among women and children. I heard they were making statements that they were proud of… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;… — George Stanley Copy Share Image
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents,… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations… — Jan Eliasson Copy Share Image
Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Be kindly and just in your dealings with your men. Never play favorites. Make them feel that justice tempered with mercy may… — John A. Lejeune Copy Share Image
Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I… — Jan Egeland Copy Share Image
I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from… — Koki Hirota Copy Share Image
The military mind tends to be conservative, realistic and historical. The civilian mind tends to be liberal, idealistic and Utopian. Journalists, obviously,… — Mark Riebling Copy Share Image
Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we,… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let… — Audie Murphy Copy Share Image
Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
The U.S. military is investing in new storage technology because most of the weight that soldiers carry on their backs is batteries.… — Christiana Figueres Copy Share Image
Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The part in Aleppo, what [people] call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it...The great stroke of luck for the military class's terrorism is that no… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
People talk about smart sanctions and crippling sanctions. Ive never seen smart sanctions, and crippling sanctions cripple everyone, including innocent civilians, and… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image