Civilians Quotes · Page 3

...The very nature of interstate war puts innocent civilians into great jeopardy, especially with modern technology.

— Murray Rothbard

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

— Barry Goldwater

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

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military

— Willie Nelson

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

— David Spade

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

— Caleb Carr

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

— Richard Llewellyn

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict…

— Nick Turse

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

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

We must do everything we can to help our service members and veterans transition into civilian life once they return home, and…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

And there's this talk that we're asking soldiers to make the greatest sacrifice, but the reality is that civilians bear the burden…

— Michael Hastings

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust…

— Barry McCaffrey

But people turn on their televisions. They turn on their televisions and they see what's happening in Iraq. The American people are…

— Joe Biden

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be…

— Nelson Mandela

Consistently, from the Hezbollah heartland, my message was that Hezbollah must stop this cowardly blending ... among women and children," . "I…

— Jan Egeland

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

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

— Koki Hirota

The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture…

— Barack Obama

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.…

— Edward Said

Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough…

— Al Sharpton

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

— Phil Klay

Its so hard for civilians, thank God you were the boss. You found a prince without losing slippers or kissing frogs.

— Wale

Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we…

— John O. Brennan

“Civilians are no more fit to have guns at their disposal than politicians are to have nukes at their disposal.”

— Abhijit Naskar

You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on…

— Peter Maurer

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

— Thomas Pynchon

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

— Caleb Carr

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.

— Erwin Rommel

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a…

— Bashar al-Assad

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

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target…

— Sebastian Junger

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

— Ann Coulter

“enrage them and escalate the situation? These weren’t combatants. These were frustrated civilians,”

— Luis Carlos Montalván