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161 Civilians quotes by 132 unique authors
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As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme…
— Ward Churchill
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We used to have a War Office, but now we have a Ministry of Defence, nuclear bombs are now described as deterrents, innocent civilians killed…
— Tony Benn
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Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race.…
— George Clooney
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To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldier and civilians…
— Unknown Author
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The country of the Two Holy Places has in our religion a peculiarity of its own over the other Muslim countries. In our religion, it…
— Osama bin Laden
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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
— Peter T. King
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U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on…
— Noam Chomsky
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If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they…
— Elliott Abrams
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Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The Pentagon got fed up with its recruits getting ripped off by payday lenders and in 2007 got Congress to make it illegal to extend…
— Timothy Noah
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In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,…
— J. G. Ballard
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Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Since 2006, when the Second Lebanon War killed perhaps 2,000 Lebanese, many of them civilians, and led to the destruction of an entire section of…
— Martin Van Creveld
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In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my…
— Anja Niedringhaus
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Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their…
— Al Sharpton
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to…
— Adam Driver
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It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way…
— Fred Woodworth
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We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through…
— Carl Levin
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The United States armed forces and coalition troops deserve recognition and support for their work to remove Saddam Hussein from power, and ensure the safety…
— Mark Kennedy
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Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
— Wilfred Burchett
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It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our…
— John Amery
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Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and…
— Clare Short
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Indiscriminate attacks on civilians ought, under all circumstances, to be illegal in war as in peacetime.
— Gijs de Vries
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My aunt and uncle are clearly civilians.
— Jimmy Kimmel
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