Combatants Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets,…
— Eric Burdon
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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the…
— Joichi Ito
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It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours,…
— P. W. Singer
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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 each other. This…
— Barry McCaffrey
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If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government.…
— Alberto J. Mora
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Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants
— Richard Eberhart
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We are cast as combatants in the war between truth and error. There is no middle ground. We must stand up for truth, even while…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store…
— Buenaventura Durruti
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The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.
— Cofer Black
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I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance…
— Christopher Smart
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In Sherman's famous march through Georgia, his soldiers left a swath of death and destruction, destroying crops, burning homes and killing civilians. Sherman himself acknowledged…
— John Pugsley
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UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after decades…
— Kofi Annan
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Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
— Chris Chocola
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We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Do not give the terrorists, the enemy combatants, the people who blow up folks at weddings, who fly airplanes into the twin towers, the ability…
— Lindsey Graham
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Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. Peace, like war, must be waged.
— George Clooney
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