You couldn’t see the soldiers as people. They were icons.

We know how to manufacture ammunition, to import arms, to buy resources and to do everything, but soldiers are from the people of Israel,…

— Yoav Gallant

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that…

— Wesley Clark

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

— George Carlin

I don't like to be called a symbol. And I don't like to be called an icon. I will just say that I have…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“The library is a symbol of freedom.”

— Sara Sheridan

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

— Ornette Coleman

My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson.

— Marina and the Diamonds

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in…

— Nhat Hanh

The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,…

— Paul Di Filippo

My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

— Dan Flavin

On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with…

— Orlando Figes

We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

— RuPaul

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

— Isabella Blow

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater