Civilians Quotes · Page 9

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands.…

— Daniel Ellsberg

More than ever before, crisis management, reconstruction and development demand a new level of cooperation between nations, and between nations and international…

— Jaap de Hoop Scheffer

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

Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent…

— Hosni Mubarak

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Michael Franti

Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to…

— Ilana Mercer

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that…

— Medea Benjamin

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

— Nicholson Baker

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others…

— Walter Kirn

The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians.…

— Edward Said

Did the President order anyone to kill civilians, did he order the destruction, did he order supporting terrorism in his country? Of…

— Bashar al-Assad

Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

— Cliff Stearns

They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…

— William Manchester

The longer the war drags on, more and more civilians are getting killed.

— Sergey Akhromeyev

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

— Anonymous

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

— Rachel Dolezal

Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.

— Caleb Carr

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations,…

— Jonah Goldberg

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

— Richard Llewellyn

From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate…

— Bashar al-Assad

I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most effective means of fighting crime in the United States is to outlaw the possession of any type of firearm by…

— Janet Reno

It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable…

— Marco Rubio