Civilians Quotes · Page 5

Terrorism, to me, is the use of terror for political purpose, and terror is indiscriminate murder of civilians to make a political…

— Al Franken

I don't think we [the USA] need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties.

— Ann Coulter

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

— Medea Benjamin

Terrorism is the intentional use of, or threat to use violence against civilians or against civilian targets, in order to attain political…

— Boaz Ganor

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

— Max Boot

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

— Elie Wiesel

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

— Noam Chomsky

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

— Rosie O'Donnell

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of…

— Donald Trump

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

— Sean Penn

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity;…

— George Stanley

I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try…

— Nicholson Baker

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all…

— Alan Dershowitz

In my view, it is only when civilians are protected that we will defeat ISIS, and until that is at the centre…

— Jo Cox

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

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

For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations…

— Jan Eliasson

Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military…

— Noam Chomsky

I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military…

— Peace Pilgrim

When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book.…

— Melissa Rosenberg

I don't believe in Western morality, i.e., don't kill civilians or children, don't destroy holy sites, don't fight during the holiday seasons,…

— Manis Friedman

To enhance the defense of the other agencies of government, including our law enforcement agency - it's so important. They're doing such…

— Donald Trump

The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected…

— Seumas Milne

I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from…

— Koki Hirota

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE AND THANK EVERYONE WHO TRIES TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS

— Widad Akrawi

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

Duarte is a moderate when it comes to civilian control of the military and curbing death squads. On economics, the man is…

— Steve Forbes

I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.

— Sonia Gandhi

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

— Anonymous

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

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

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions…

— Richard Llewellyn

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

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let…

— Audie Murphy

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability…

— Carl Levin

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

Israel is in the midst of a difficult military and diplomatic campaign against terrorists. An organisation that works to prove allegations that…

— Uri Orbach

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state.We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and…

— Anonymous

We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others…

— Anonymous

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and…

— Germaine Greer