Civilians Quotes · Page 5

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

— Rosie O'Donnell

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Max Boot

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

— Cyril Connolly

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would…

— Ariel Sharon

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.

— George Clooney

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

— Edward Said

Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people…

— PJ Harvey

The history of warfare has not yet enabled any army, any civilized army, the army of a democracy like Israel, to be…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

We firmly oppose the use of violence in the course of current transformations in Arab States, especially against civilians. We are well…

— Sergei Lavrov

Whatever the lengths to which others may go, His Majesty's Government will never resort to the deliberate attack on women and children…

— Neville Chamberlain

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than…

— Bill Maher

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation…

— Nicholson Baker

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

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

— William Manchester

We got a commitment that 3 million nurses are going to be trained to better identify these signs [of PTSD], because, you…

— Michelle Obama

You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will…

— Bashar al-Assad

GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of…

— Robert O. Becker

The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of…

— Lawrence Kaplan

If I have to reduce all of the laws of war into a single sentence, it is this. You divide the world…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

“They did what they were told, kept their noses clean. Civilians, nothing wrong with it, but if they only knew that they…

— Aric Davis

A system in which legal police shootings of unarmed civilians are a common occurrence is a system that has some serious flaws.…

— Matthew Yglesias

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those…

— Martin Van Creveld

I think any time you construct, you know, plan an operation, you have to account for civilians that are part of that…

— Lloyd Austin

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

— Robert M. Gates

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.

— Gijs de Vries

In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.

— Ari Shavit

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

— George W. Bush

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

— Stuart Symington

The people who get the ability to use force have to be watched carefully by civilians to make sure they don't use…

— Rand Paul

“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open…

— Bear Grylls

I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of…

— M.I.A

In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

— John Podhoretz

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States,…

— David Swanson

Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.

— Tariq Ramadan

Civilians craving for their rights while leaders ignite fights, where the hell is peace and justice.

— Simon Quperlier

We have a responsibility to make sure civilians and children are never the targets of war and humanitarian assistance is never blocked.

— Laphonza Butler