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It is criminal to put our servicemen and women in harm's way and to put the lives of so many civilians on the line for… — Dave Matthews
We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral… — Robert McNamara
All sorts of artillery installations, rockets and tank units that are firing on civilians in Kosovo should be neutralized. If that means air strikes, then… — Fatos Nano
If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be… — Benjamin Netanyahu
Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian… — Barack Obama
Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine. — Sean Penn
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash… — Vladimir Putin
Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur. — Tariq Ramadan
At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. — Charles Rangel
Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.' — Feisal Abdul Rauf
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians. — Theodore C. Sorensen
Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. — Thomas Pynchon
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit. — Robert A. Heinlein
We don’t want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you’re like a ferocious bunny, aren’t you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military. — Maureen Dowd
To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was… — David Wong
From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns and his fears… — J R Ward
Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy; it is we, the civilians, who… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being… — Rick Yancey
You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew… — Max Brooks
How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together… — Ilona Andrews
Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them… — Richard Kadrey
Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of… — George Orwell

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