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136 Civilian quotes by 121 unique authors

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the… — Tom Hayden
This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as… — W. Averell Harriman
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial… — Nelson Mandela
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a… — Jessa Gamble
It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life. — Adam Driver
With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between… — Zach Wamp
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer… — Ariel Sharon
Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing… — P.J. O'Rourke
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that… — Jimmy Carter
We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by… — William Kristol
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.… — Jimmy Carter
There is no precedent of a civilian population, displaced by a war that their leadership started and lost, claiming a right to return to territory… — Caroline Glick
Peace is a condition in which no civilian pays any attention to military casualties which do not achieve a page one lead story unless that… — Robert A. Heinlein
How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral… — Clive James
Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what… — Marcus Luttrell
Let the soldier yield to the civilian. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous… — J. William Fulbright
Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively. — David Petraeus
But Iran has gone far beyond what is necessary for a purely civilian programme. It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition… — John Yoo
The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to… — Jody Williams
Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how… — Joe Wright
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet. — Yehuda Amichai
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve,… — Steve Buyer

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